31 lines of ruby code to create a ics file from Seminardesks event api.
If anything goes wrong in the pipeline, everything goes wrong.
Install the gem:
$ gem install seminardesk_ics
or to include it library-style
# Gemfile
gem 'seminardesk_ics', '~> 0.1.0'
There is a one-of demo script, or you use the SeminardeskICS::API and
SeminardeskICS::Converter classes (they are like 10 lines of code :) ).
The script comes with a --help switch, though.
Run
$ seminardesk_ics --help
$ seminardesk_ics --url https://myurl --file result.ics
and pray.
Alternatively, check out the github repo, run bundle and
$ bundle exec exe/seminardesk_ics
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/ecovillage/seminardesk_ics. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.
Everyone interacting in the SeminardeskIcs project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.
The code is published under the AGPLv3+ and Copyright 2021 Felix Wolfsteller.
While ics files do the job, the caldav protocol allows for more advanced use (and e.g. updates of single events, instead of republication of all events), including user modifications.
However, full blown caldav implementations in ruby are rare and outdated. A quick search only resulted in https://github.com/inferiorhumanorgans/meishi and https://github.com/jbox-web/cervicale/tree/master/config and https://github.com/schmurfy/dav4rack_ext .
Also, the main purpose of this script was to have a POC for integration into nextcloud. Still have to figure out how often imported calenders are synced there (if the ics adress is given as a URL).