From: Richard Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2003-03-16T04:15:57+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: vcard 0.1 - a vCard decoding library

This is awesome...welcome to the contributing community members!

Its cool to announce libraries here (until we get so very overwhelmed 
with new code announcements that we need to do something about it ;-)

One quick recommendation is to use the index method [] as an alias for 
value_of on the VCard object...that way you could do this:

VCDATA =<<END
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:Kilmer;Rich;;;
FN:Kilmer Rich
EMAIL;type=HOME:rich@monotheos.com
EMAIL;type=WORK;type=pref:rich@infoether.com
END:VCARD
END

card = Rfc2425::VCard.new(VCDATA)
puts card["email"] #=> rich@infoether.com

and possibly accept symbols in addition to strings:

puts card[:email] #=> rich@infoether.com

and perhaps enable a second (optional) param for the type:

puts card[:email, :home] #=> rich@monotheos.com

To define such as method:

class VCard
   def [](fieldname, ftype=nil)
     ...
   end
end

Anyway...just ideas...and thanks for the library,

rich

On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 01:19  PM, Sam Roberts wrote:

> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=vcard
>
> An implementation of the MIME Content-Type for Directory Information
> (RFC 2425), and profiles of this format. The basic RFC 2425 format is
> implemented by the DirectoryInfo class. Currently the only supported
> profile is vCard (RFC 2426), implemented by the Vcard class.
>
> This is my first Ruby module, and I would love to have feedback on
> useability, Ruby-ishness, API suggestions, bug reports, anything,
> really!
>
> Sam
>
> Btw, is it OK to announce things to ruby-talk? Is it just considered
> noise?
>
>
>