calfilter

Description

The calfilter gem is a small library to assist in writing filtering programs for icalendar files or streams. It can be used for various purposes, including:

• removing items from icalendar feeds that are not interesting to you
• removing private information from your own calendar before publishing it to others
• reformatting a provided calendar to highlight particular information

Install

sudo gem install calfilter

Synopsis

require 'calfilter'
require 'calfilter/cgi'

filter_calendars('some_url') do |cal|
    cal.keep(:events)  # not journals, todos, or freebusys

    cal.filter_events do |evt|
        # Remove events I've marked private
        evt.remove if evt.description =~ /PRIVATE/
        # Don't reveal phone numbers of my contacts
        evt.description.sub! /\d{3}-\d{4}/, '###-####'
    end
end

Features

• require 'calfilter/tripit' to add some methods specific to tripit.com calendar feeds.
• require 'calfilter/cgi' to automatically turn your filter into a CGI script.

Bugs/Requests

Please submit your bug reports, patches or feature requests as a ticket under the component "calfilter". You'll have to create an account (Sorry! Otherwise we'd get way too much spam).

License and Copyright

Copyright (c) 2008 Glenn Vanderburg, released under the MIT license