require 'simplevpim'
s = '
# vevent
title: Book Festival
start: 15 Aug
end: 17 Aug
location: Edinburgh
description: Refreshments included
'
card = SimpleVpim.new(s).to_vevent
puts card
Output:
BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Book Festival DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210815 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210817 LOCATION:Edinburgh DESCRIPTION:Refreshments included END:VEVENT
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This morning I read that the government were adopting the vCard and iCalendar formats as standard. Out of interest I discovered there was a Ruby gem which could generate a vCard, and iCalendar format, however it didn't seem that convenient to use. Which is why I created the SimplevPim gem which is a wrapper for the vPim gem.
e.g.
require 'simplevpim'
s = '
# vcard
name: James Robertson
email:
home: james@jamesrobertson.eu
work: jrobertsonfunjob@gmail.com
'
card = SimpleVpim.new(s).to_vcard
puts card
BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Robertson;James;;; FN:James Robertson EMAIL;TYPE=work:jrobertsonfunjob@gmail.com EMAIL;TYPE=home:james@jamesrobertson.eu END:VCARD
I only just wrote the gem today, however it has potential to be a convenient tool for anyone wanting to generate their own vCard.
update: 04-Nov-2014 @ 21:02
The gem can now handle a single URL or multiple URLs:
e.g.
require 'simplevpim'
s = '
# vcard
name: James Robertson
email:
home: james@jamesrobertson.eu
work: jrobertsonfunjob@gmail.com
url: http://www.jamesrobertson.eu/
'
card = SimpleVpim.new(s).to_vcard
puts card
BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Robertson;James;;; FN:James Robertson EMAIL;TYPE=work:jrobertsonfunjob@gmail.com EMAIL;TYPE=home:james@jamesrobertson.eu URL:http://www.jamesrobertson.eu/ END:VCARD
require 'simplevpim'
s = '
# vcard
name: James Robertson
email:
home: james@jamesrobertson.eu
work: jrobertsonfunjob@gmail.com
url:
http://www.jamesrobertson.eu/
https://github.com/jrobertson/
'
card = SimpleVpim.new(s).to_vcard
puts card
BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Robertson;James;;; FN:James Robertson EMAIL;TYPE=work:jrobertsonfunjob@gmail.com EMAIL;TYPE=home:james@jamesrobertson.eu URL:http://www.jamesrobertson.eu/ URL:https://github.com/jrobertson/ END:VCARD
- ?simplevpim https://rubygems.org/gems/simplevpim?
- ?vCard Maker - Free electronic business card generator http://vcardmaker.com/?
- ?sam-github/vpim https://github.com/sam-github/vpim?
- ?vCard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard?
- ?vCard and iCalendar are now government open standards https://governmenttechnology.blog.gov.uk/2014/10/31/vcard-and-icalendar-are-now-government-open-standards-2/?
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