iCalendar -- Internet calendaring, Ruby style
http://github.com/icalendar/icalendar
Upgrade from 1.x
Better documentation is still to come, but in the meantime the changes needed to move from 1.x to 2.0 are summarized by the diff needed to update the README
DESCRIPTION
iCalendar is a Ruby library for dealing with iCalendar files in the iCalendar format defined by RFC-5545.
EXAMPLES
Creating calendars and events
require 'icalendar'
# Create a calendar with an event (standard method)
cal = Icalendar::Calendar.new
cal.event do |e|
e.dtstart = Icalendar::Values::Date.new('20050428')
e.dtend = Icalendar::Values::Date.new('20050429')
e.summary = "Meeting with the man."
e.description = "Have a long lunch meeting and decide nothing..."
e.ip_class = "PRIVATE"
end
cal.publish
Or you can make events like this
event = Icalendar::Event.new
event.dtstart = DateTime.civil(2006, 6, 23, 8, 30)
event.summary = "A great event!"
cal.add_event(event)
event2 = cal.event # This automatically adds the event to the calendar
event2.dtstart = DateTime.civil(2006, 6, 24, 8, 30)
event2.summary = "Another great event!"
Support for property parameters
params = {"altrep" => "http://my.language.net", "language" => "SPANISH"}
event = cal.event do |e|
e.dtstart = Icalendar::Values::Date.new('20050428')
e.dtend = Icalendar::Values::Date.new('20050429')
e.summary = Icalendar::Values::Text.new "This is a summary with params.", params
end
event.summary.ical_params #=> {'altrep' => 'http://my.language.net', 'language' => 'SPANISH'}
# or
event = cal.event do |e|
e.dtstart = Icalendar::Values::Date.new('20050428')
e.dtend = Icalendar::Values::Date.new('20050429')
e.summary = "This is a summary with params."
e.summary.ical_params = params
end
event.summary.ical_params #=> {'altrep' => 'http://my.language.net', 'language' => 'SPANISH'}
Support for Dates or DateTimes
Sometimes we don't care if an event's start or end are Date or DateTime objects. For this, we can use DateOrDateTime.new(value). Calling .call on the returned DateOrDateTime will immediately return the underlying Date or DateTime object.
event = cal.event do |e|
e.dtstart = Icalendar::Values::DateOrDateTime.new('20140924')
e.dtend = Icalendar::Values::DateOrDateTime.new('20140925').call
e.summary = 'This is an all-day event, because DateOrDateTime will return Dates'
end
Support for URLs
For clients that can parse and display a URL associated with an event, it's possible to assign one.
event = cal.event do |e|
e.url = 'https://example.com'
end
We can output the calendar as a string
cal_string = cal.to_ical
puts cal_string
ALARMS
Within an event
cal.event do |e|
# ...other event properties
e.alarm do |a|
a.action = "EMAIL"
a.description = "This is an event reminder" # email body (required)
a.summary = "Alarm notification" # email subject (required)
a.attendee = %w(mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected]) # one or more email recipients (required)
a.append_attendee "mailto:[email protected]"
a.trigger = "-PT15M" # 15 minutes before
a.append_attach Icalendar::Values::Uri.new("ftp://host.com/novo-procs/felizano.exe", "fmttype" => "application/binary") # email attachments (optional)
end
e.alarm do |a|
a.action = "DISPLAY" # This line isn't necessary, it's the default
a.summary = "Alarm notification"
a.trigger = "-P1DT0H0M0S" # 1 day before
end
e.alarm do |a|
a.action = "AUDIO"
a.trigger = "-PT15M"
a.append_attach "Basso"
end
end
Output
# BEGIN:VALARM
# ACTION:EMAIL
# ATTACH;FMTTYPE=application/binary:ftp://host.com/novo-procs/felizano.exe
# TRIGGER:-PT15M
# SUMMARY:Alarm notification
# DESCRIPTION:This is an event reminder
# ATTENDEE:mailto:[email protected]
# ATTENDEE:mailto:[email protected]
# END:VALARM
#
# BEGIN:VALARM
# ACTION:DISPLAY
# TRIGGER:-P1DT0H0M0S
# SUMMARY:Alarm notification
# END:VALARM
#
# BEGIN:VALARM
# ACTION:AUDIO
# ATTACH;VALUE=URI:Basso
# TRIGGER:-PT15M
# END:VALARM
Checking for an Alarm
Calling the event.alarm method will create an alarm if one doesn't exist. To check if an event has an alarm use the has_alarm? method.
event.has_alarm?
# => false
event.alarm
# => #<Icalendar::Alarm ... >
event.has_alarm?
#=> true
TIMEZONES
cal = Icalendar::Calendar.new
cal.timezone do |t|
t.tzid = "America/Chicago"
t.daylight do |d|
d.tzoffsetfrom = "-0600"
d.tzoffsetto = "-0500"
d.tzname = "CDT"
d.dtstart = "19700308T020000"
d.rrule = "FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU"
end
t.standard do |s|
s.tzoffsetfrom = "-0500"
s.tzoffsetto = "-0600"
s.tzname = "CST"
s.dtstart = "19701101T020000"
s.rrule = "FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU"
end
end
Output
# BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
# TZID:America/Chicago
# BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
# TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
# TZOFFSETTO:-0500
# TZNAME:CDT
# DTSTART:19700308T020000
# RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU
# END:DAYLIGHT
# BEGIN:STANDARD
# TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
# TZOFFSETTO:-0600
# TZNAME:CST
# DTSTART:19701101T020000
# RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU
# END:STANDARD
# END:VTIMEZONE
iCalendar has some basic support for creating VTIMEZONE blocks from timezone information pulled from tzinfo.
You must require tzinfo support manually to take advantage.
iCalendar has been tested and works with tzinfo versions 0.3, 1.x, and 2.x. The tzinfo-data gem may also
be required depending on your version of tzinfo and potentially your operating system.
Example
require 'icalendar/tzinfo'
cal = Icalendar::Calendar.new
event_start = DateTime.new 2008, 12, 29, 8, 0, 0
event_end = DateTime.new 2008, 12, 29, 11, 0, 0
tzid = "America/Chicago"
tz = TZInfo::Timezone.get tzid
timezone = tz.ical_timezone event_start
cal.add_timezone timezone
cal.event do |e|
e.dtstart = Icalendar::Values::DateTime.new event_start, 'tzid' => tzid
e.dtend = Icalendar::Values::DateTime.new event_end, 'tzid' => tzid
e.summary = "Meeting with the man."
e.description = "Have a long lunch meeting and decide nothing..."
e.organizer = "mailto:[email protected]"
e.organizer = Icalendar::Values::CalAddress.new("mailto:[email protected]", cn: 'John Smith')
end
Parsing iCalendars
# Open a file or pass a string to the parser
cal_file = File.open("single_event.ics")
# Parser returns an array of calendars because a single file
# can have multiple calendars.
cals = Icalendar::Calendar.parse(cal_file)
cal = cals.first
# Now you can access the cal object in just the same way I created it
event = cal.events.first
puts "start date-time: #{event.dtstart}"
puts "start date-time timezone: #{event.dtstart.ical_params['tzid']}"
puts "summary: #{event.summary}"
You can also create a Parser instance directly, this can be used to enable
strict parsing:
# Sometimes you want to strongly verify only rfc-approved properties are
# used
strict_parser = Icalendar::Parser.new(cal_file, true)
cal = strict_parser.parse
Parsing Components (e.g. Events)
# Open a file or pass a string to the parser
event_file = File.open("event.ics")
# Parser returns an array of events because a single file
# can have multiple events.
events = Icalendar::Event.parse(event_file)
event = events.first
puts "start date-time: #{event.dtstart}"
puts "start date-time timezone: #{event.dtstart.ical_params['tzid']}"
puts "summary: #{event.summary}"
Finders
Often times in web apps and other interactive applications you'll need to lookup items in a calendar to make changes or get details. Now you can find everything by the unique id automatically associated with all components.
cal = Calendar.new
10.times { cal.event } # Create 10 events with only default data.
some_event = cal.events[5] # Grab it from the array of events
# Use the uid as the key in your app
key = some_event.uid
# so later you can find it.
same_event = cal.find_event(key)
Examples
Check the unit tests for examples of most things you'll want to do, but please send me example code or let me know what's missing.
Download
The latest release version of this library can be found at
Installation
It's all about rubygems:
$ gem install icalendar
Testing
To run the tests:
$ bundle install
$ rake spec
License
This library is released under the same license as Ruby itself.
Support & Contributions
Please submit pull requests from a rebased topic branch and include tests for all bugs and features.
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