In the GMail API, ETags are supported for Filters:
https://developers.google.com/resources/api-libraries/documentation/gmail/v1/csharp/latest/classGoogle_1_1Apis_1_1Gmail_1_1v1_1_1Data_1_1Filter.html
The Ruby API does not (yet) support that:
https://googleapis.dev/ruby/google-apis-gmail_v1/v0.2.0/Google/Apis/GmailV1/Filter.html
The problem is that maintaining external filters and syncing them to GMail is very complicated and/or consumes a lot of API. Having an eTag would make that very much easier to change only the data which needs to be changed.
Therefore I'd be grateful if the Ruby SDK would support the full GmailV1 API in that regard.