Connecting to gmail with Ruby (or Connecting to POP3 servers over SSL with Ruby) Short version (or, “I want to connect to gmail NOW”) Download the pop3 library from Ruby HEAD (Ruby 1.9) (download file) Use the following script to get started (making sure that you explicitly reference the downloaded pop3 file)… require 'pop_ssl' # I renamed the file from pop.rb to pop_ssl.rb to ensure I was requiri