Does anyone know any gems/plugins/tutorials related to exporting events to iCal, Google Calendar, Outlook from a Rails application?
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20-08-2019 - |
Question
I am trying to figure out if there is already a plug in that does the interaction with iCal, Google APIs that I can use or do I need to just get my hands dirty and write it myself.
If anyone knows of good resources that I can look at that could help me with the implementation, that would be good as well.
I am new to RoR and I have been trying to learn it for a while. I finally decided to just start playing with my own application rather than just following a book.
Any help in this matter would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Solution
Check out the Google Calendar gem for rails. It lets you display a user's Google Calendar in your rails app and they have sample snippets showing how to export events to Google Calendar:
require 'googlecalendar'
g = GData.new
g.login('REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_MAIL@gmail.com', 'REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_PASSWORD')
event = { :title=>'title',
:content=>'content',
:author=>'pub.cog',
:email=>'pub.cog@gmail.com',
:where=>'Toulouse,France',
:startTime=>'2007-06-06T15:00:00.000Z',
:endTime=>'2007-06-06T17:00:00.000Z'}
g.new_event(event)
For iCal, use the iCalendar gem and then you can export events as follows:
require ‘icalendar’
class EventController < ApplicationController
def export_events
@event = Event.find(params[:id])
@calendar = Icalendar::Calendar.new
event = Icalendar::Event.new
event.start = @event.dt_time.strftime(”%Y%m%dT%H%M%S”)
event.end = @event.dt_time.strftime(”%Y%m%dT%H%M%S”)
event.summary = @event.summary
event.description = @event.description
event.location = @event.location
@calendar.add event
@calendar.publish
headers['Content-Type'] = “text/calendar; charset=UTF-8″
render_without_layout :text => @calendar.to_ical
end
end