From: Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
Date: 2007-10-01T09:32:20+09:00
Subject: Re: iCal (ics) parser in Ruby

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 01:45:12AM +0900, Une B?vue wrote:
> Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@hinegardner.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > This all just means that the rdoc generation of the vpim gem has some
> > incorrect generation options.  The the library itself is still
> > installed.
> 
> OK, i've tried one of your first example :

These aren't my examles.  I had nothing to do with the development of
vpim.  I've used it once or twice to test some things out, but that's
about it.  I just knew it existed.

> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> 
> require 'vpim/vcard'
> require 'vpim/icalendar'
> 
> $in  = ARGV.first ? File.open(ARGV.shift) : $stdin
> $out = ARGV.first ? File.open(ARGV.shift, 'w') : $stdout
> 
> cal = Vpim::Icalendar.create
> 
> Vpim::Vcard.decode($in).each do |card|
>   if card.birthday
>     cal.push Vpim::Icalendar::Vevent.create_yearly(
>       card.birthday,
>       "Birthday for #{card['fn'].strip}"
>       )
>     $stderr.puts "#{card['fn']} -> bday #{cal.events.last.dtstart}"
>   end
> end
> 
> puts cal.encode
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> calling it by :
> ./vcf-to-ics.rb Anais.vcf Anais.ics
> 
> having an error :
> ~/work/Ruby/vpim-0.9/essais%> ./vcf-to-ics.rb Anais.vcf Anais.ics
> ./vcf-to-ics.rb:12: undefined method `birthday' for
> #<Vpim::Vcard:0x10d81c0> (NoMethodError)
>         from ./vcf-to-ics.rb:11:in `each'
>         from ./vcf-to-ics.rb:11
> 
> the vCard i've exported being with a birthdat field, name in french :
> "date de naissance"
> 
> do you think this could be the prob (ie french localisation of
> AddressBook) ???

Sounds plausible to me.  How bout posting it to the vpim mailing list
and see if the authors can help out.  

    http://rubyforge.org/mail/?group_id=218

enjoy,

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy@hinegardner.org