something about gcal

I had a request for creating events in Google Calendar from some business processes. It gave me the opportunity to play with Google Data; it wasn’t too difficult, especially since it’s based on Atom and AtomPub.

I have thus started working on a new rufus library. It’s very limited for now, but I can have code that looks like that :

require 'rubygems'
require 'rufus/gcal'

calendars = Rufus::Google::Calendar.get_calendars(
  :account => ENV['GUSER'],
  :password => ENV['GPASS'])

#calendars.values.each { |c| p [ c.name, c.href ] }

cal = calendars['gwork']

id = cal.post_quick!(
  'Tennis with John November 13 3pm-4:30pm')

cal.events(:q => 'tennis').each do |e|
  puts
  puts e.to_s
end

Behind the scenes, it relies heavily on the fine atom-tools gem by Brendan Taylor.

The only authentication mechanism used is the ClientLogin. For the other mechanisms, one can look at gdata-ruby.

My next step will be to polish the Event class and to allow for manipulation of Calendar resources. Then I will take a look at other Google Data APIs.

source : http://github.com/jmettraux/rufus-google
mailing-list : http://groups.google.com/group/rufus-ruby