From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-12-03T20:27:30+09:00
Subject: Re: About creating a Planner in Ruby

Sandro Paganotti wrote:
> Does anyone know a good starting point (a gem, an article, a library,
> etc...) on how
> to build a typical Planner/Agenda application ?
> 
> In details, what I need to develop must:
> 
>    - handle tasks, appointments and todos
>    - keep somehow track of free time
>    - be used with ICAL based calendars through subscription
>    - handle group of users

If you are learning to program, or learning Ruby, then this may be a 
rather large first bite to chew. That's because you'll have to learn 
Ruby, plus some user-interface library (e.g. Tk, or a web framework like 
Rails), plus the ICAL data format and protocol interactions, plus 
scheduling algorithms.

I suggest you start simple. For example, write something which handles 
to-do lists using local storage. You can find a great prototype to copy 
on the web at www.tadalist.com (that is, for copying how the user 
interface looks; you'll still have to code it yourself)

> I initially thought about using an ICAL server (DAVIcal
> http://rscds.sourceforge.net/)
> but I found nothing that can be queried/used from Ruby.

Clearly you didn't enter "ruby ical" into Google.

So don't expect someone else to do your project/homework for you, when 
you haven't done the most basic research yourself.
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