Can't get birthday from Google Contacts Data API in Ruby on Rails

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Published on 2010-05-31T18:56:04Z Indexed on 2010/05/31 19:03 UTC
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I am trying to get a user's contact's birthdays, from Google's data API using the gdata gem. But even though I use the full feed, it does not include the gContact:birthday element.

I have also tried fetching only one contact, but the birthday element is still missing.

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