Rails Envy Podcast – Episode #079: 05/21/2009

by Jason on May 20th, 2009

Episode 79. We mess up a lot but it’s funny.

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2 Responses to “Rails Envy Podcast – Episode #079: 05/21/2009”

  • Jeff Smick says:

    Thanks for the Blather mention!

    Julien’s Babylon is another great library for XMPP also written on EventMachine but using Nokogiri: http://github.com/julien51/babylon/tree/master

  • Hi Gregg and Jason,

    Thanks for the mention of RiCal. Not that you care, but here’s how I pronounce my name
    http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/2009/06/05/mr-tolley

    As for the use of RiCal in Rails, it’s more a Model than a View thing. You might use it to:

    1. store imported icalendar data in string format in the database along with some attributes derived from the data like the range of datetimes within which occurrences of an event can occur, then have the model be able to enumerate occurrences of an event in the same or an overlapping range, which might then be rendered as a calendar display.

    2. Gather information about a new event (the UI is up to you) then use the DSL to create an object which can both enumerate occurrences, and produce the data to be stored in the database as above.

    I’ll probably write a Rails plugin eventually to provide some ready-made ActiveRecord modelling to be used in conjunction with RiCal, but for now, that’s an exercise left to the reader.

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