I am trying to upload a youtube video using the GData gem (I have seen the youtube_g gem but would like to make it work with pure GData if possible), but I keep getting this error: GData::Client::BadRequestError in 'MyProject::Google::YouTube should upload the actual video to youtube (once it does, mock this test out)' request error 400: No file found in upload request. I am using this code: def metadata data = <<-EOF <?xml version="1.0"?> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:yt="http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007"> <media:group> <media:title type="plain">Bad Wedding Toast</media:title> <media:description type="plain"> I gave a bad toast at my friend's wedding. </media:description> <media:category scheme="http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat">People</media:category> <media:keywords>toast, wedding</media:keywords> </media:group> </entry> EOF end @yt = GData::Client::YouTube.new @yt.clientlogin("name", "pass") @yt.developer_key = "myKey" url = "http://uploads.gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/name/uploads" mime_type = "multipart/related" file_path = "sample_upload.mp4" @yt.post_file(url, file_path, mime_type, metadata) What is the recommended/standard way for uploading videos to youtube with ruby, what is your method? Update After applying the changes to wrapped_entry, the string it produces looks like this: --END_OF_PART_59003 Content-Type: application/atom+xml; charset=UTF-8 <?xml version="1.0"?> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:yt="http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007"> <media:group> <media:title type="plain">Bad Wedding Toast</media:title> <media:description type="plain"> I gave a bad toast at my friend's wedding. </media:description> <media:category scheme="http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat">People</media:category> <media:keywords>toast, wedding</media:keywords> </media:group> </entry> --END_OF_PART_59003 Content-Type: multipart/related Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary ... and inspecting the request and response looks like this: Request: <GData::HTTP::Request:0x1b8bb44 @method=:post @url="http://uploads.gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/lancejpollard/uploads" @body=#<GData::HTTP::MimeBody:0x1b8c738 @parts=[#<GData::HTTP::MimeBodyString:0x1b8c058 @bytes_read=0 @string="--END_OF_PART_30909\r\nContent-Type: application/atom+xml; charset=UTF-8\r\n\r\n <?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<entry xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom\"\n xmlns:media=\"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/\"\n xmlns:yt=\"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007\">\n <media:group>\n <media:title type=\"plain\">Bad Wedding Toast</media:title>\n <media:description type=\"plain\">\n I gave a bad toast at my friend's wedding.\n </media:description>\n <media:category scheme=\"http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat\">People</media:category>\n <media:keywords>toast wedding</media:keywords>\n </media:group>\n</entry> \n\r\n--END_OF_PART_30909\r\nContent-Type: multipart/related\r\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: binary\r\n\r\n"> #<File:/Users/Lance/Documents/Development/git/thing/spec/fixtures/sample_upload.mp4> #<GData::HTTP::MimeBodyString:0x1b8c044 @bytes_read=0 @string="\r\n--END_OF_PART_30909--"] @current_part=0 @boundary="END_OF_PART_30909" @headers={"Slug"="sample_upload.mp4" "User-Agent"="GoogleDataRubyUtil-AnonymousApp" "GData-Version"="2" "X-GData-Key"="key=AI39si7jkhs_ECjF4unOQz8gpWGSKXgq0KJpm8wywkvBSw4s8oJd5p5vkpvURHBNh-hiYJtoKwQqSfot7KoCkeCE32rNcZqMxA" "Content-Type"="multipart/related; boundary=\"END_OF_PART_30909\"" "MIME-Version"="1.0"} Response: #<GData::HTTP::Response:0x1b897e0 @body="No file found in upload request." @headers={"cache-control"=>"no-cache no-store must-revalidate" "connection"=>"close" "expires"=>"Fri 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT" "content-type"=>"text/plain; charset=utf-8" "date"=>"Fri 11 Dec 2009 02:10:25 GMT" "server"=>"Upload Server Built on Nov 30 2009 13:21:18 (1259616078)" "x-xss-protection"=>"0" "content-length"=>"32" "pragma"=>"no-cache"} @status_code=400> Still not working, I'll have to check it out more with those changes.