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Re: ical C library in ruby?

2009-12-27T21:58:56Z

An example of using Ruby's FFI to call into the system-installed
libical (just for the icalrecur_expand_recurrence() function, which
simply converts an RRULE string into a series of dates, so avoiding
all the scary libical structures):
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require 'libical'

Calagator code sprint update: December 12, 2009

2009-12-24T10:36:54Z

From [link]
We had a small but successful code sprint at NedSpace Old Town.
PARTICIPANTS
Reid Beels, Audrey Eschright, Igal Koshevoy and first-time participants
Maher Hawash and Steven Lindberg.
RESOLVED
As of December 23, 2009 all of the following changes have been merged

Re: ical C library in ruby?

2009-12-16T00:29:59Z

{I'm CC'ing the following personal email response to the Calagator
mailing list because it may be of interest there too}.

I'm sorry to hear that. :D

I made enough progress that I could parse iCalendar data with libical
and access the resulting data structures from Ruby, and could also make
other arbitrary calls into libical. I also started writing an

Re: [pdx-tech-calendar] Re: Calagator code sprint: Saturday, December 12, 10am-5pm at NedSpace Old Town

2009-12-14T09:43:51Z

Joe,

Sorry that you couldn't attend the sprint, we missed you too. We had a
productive event and I'll post a summary soonish.

I realize this sprint wasn't planned far in advance and that there were
conflicts. However, there'd be conflicts at other times and it's been
too long since the last sprint, and I just really wanted us to get back

Re: Calagator code sprint: Saturday, December 12, 10am-5pm at NedSpace Old Town

2009-12-12T17:09:22Z

Sorry I cannot be there(press of work + threat of freezing rain) -- it
sounds like great fun. I hope we can continue these next year (I
should have more free time).

Calagator code sprint: Saturday, December 12, 10am-5pm at NedSpace Old Town

2009-12-08T08:32:05Z

From [link]

Help us improve Calagator -- join us for a code sprint.

Everyone is welcome to participate, even those that haven't been at a
code sprint before. These events are great for learning more about
creating software, agile development, Ruby and Rails, and finding ways

Re: [pdx-tech-calendar] Re: Calagator installer package-y thing

2009-11-23T10:12:01Z

I wish that you'd asked on this list or contacted another Rails
developer, because deploying changes should haven't been a big deal
compared to setting up the instance.

Asking questions and sending specific feedback on problematic
documentation, UIs and such are often the only way that we know that

Re: [pdx-tech-calendar] Re: Calagator installer package-y thing

2009-11-22T23:42:45Z

It basically came down to unfamiliarity with the deployment mechanism. Not
being a rails hacker, it wasn't obvious to me the proper way to deploy
changes. So I had it all up and running, but then deploying changes became
tricky and frustrating. I don't have specifics - and maybe the docs are
better now.

Re: [pdx-tech-calendar] Re: Calagator installer package-y thing

2009-11-22T23:28:33Z

Hi Luke,

I'm fairly interested in the notion of Calagator as a hosted service, and I think this will happen eventually.

If I might ask, what were the specific hassles of operation that you encountered running vancal.org? Even if automating the installation process is a difficult task, we'd like to make the job of running a Calagator instance as painless as we reasonably can. :)

Re: [pdx-tech-calendar] Re: Calagator installer package-y thing

2009-11-22T22:13:26Z

Maybe someone needs to set this up as a hosted service and offer free and/or
paid access to it.

I think we all know of many groups that would love access to such a
service. I ran vancal.org on calagator for a while, but ended up taking it
down b/c i didn't have enough energy to maintain the operation of it. Maybe

Re: Calagator installer package-y thing

2009-11-22T20:46:08Z

Thanks for the advice!

There are few tech-savvy anarchists in this area (that I know of).
Because there is a heavy emphasis on DIY, I would like to have
something that honors this spirit and allows for people to be able to
do as much as possible on their own. I am looking into writing a
parser for Facebook events and the MySpace event listing for venues,

Re: [pdx-tech-calendar] Calagator installer package-y thing

2009-11-22T12:14:44Z

camo wrote:
Thanks for the interest, you're welcome to try this.

However, I feel the energy needed to do this would be better spent
supporting a community that needs their own Calagator; putting together
a team to support, populate and publicize the site; and work with us to
exchange patches. Using this approach would directly benefit that

Calagator installer package-y thing

2009-11-20T21:52:13Z

Hi all,
I'm setting up Calagator to test out and was wondering how to go about
writing an installer for non-tech people, somewhat like the Wordpress
installer or other similar web interface installs. If Calagator is the
best solution for the problem, I want to be able to hand it over to
other people who can help to maintain it.

Re: [pdx-tech-calendar] Fixed Upcoming imports to Calagator with a new driver

2009-10-22T22:50:44Z

Thanks for implementing this, Igal. It's a relief to move away from
Upcoming's horribly broken hCalendar markup.

Reid

Fixed Upcoming imports to Calagator with a new driver

2009-10-20T00:22:47Z

Yay, you can import Upcoming events into Calagator correctly again. I've
resolved the latest errors that Upcoming introduced: locations no longer
have addresses, commas get double escaped, extra linebreaks are added,
bad escaping invalidates the container, unwanted HTML is injected, etc.
Given how many things Upcoming screwed up this time, I've decided to try