Ruby….
February 9, 2007 – 11:21 amNo don’t mean rhyming slang for a curry… I’ve been teaching myself to script in Ruby the last few days… I had a small problem, basically I use a Mac and I need to access some calendaring information held in Exchange, I need a reliable means to dump the information held in there for what I’m supposed to be doing into iCal on OS X. Tried a tool called GroupCal, now it seemed to work okay for my personal calendar but it messed up rotten for group calendaring.
Now here comes the bit where Ruby came in, it seems there is very little out there in the way of non Windows tools or stuff written in sane languages other than C# to access the resources in Exchange for calendaring..
The one thing I found was in Ruby, so after hacking it about for a while I managed to get the persons code to work, tho, it broke a number of bits in the iCal file it made, left out some information which is kinda useful, such as attendees and the like. So I decided to start from scratch using a library for doing the basics with exchange that I found on rubyforge. The library misses some bits of the appointment data, so I added that.
Actually kind of impressed with Ruby, it seems pretty elegant. I think I’m going to play some more with it and see where I can take it.
