# About creating a Planner in Ruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-creating-a-planner-in-ruby/154684>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 2, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-creating-a-planner-in-ruby/154684 "2008-12-02T23:07:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![sandro\_p](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@sandro\_p](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sandro_p)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-creating-a-planner-in-ruby/154684/1 "2008-12-02T23:07:00Z")

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Hi

Does anyone know a good starting point (a gem, an article, a library,  
etc…) on how  
to build a typical Planner/Agenda application ?

In details, what I need to develop must:

- handle tasks, appointments and todos
- keep somehow track of free time
- be used with ICAL based calendars through subscription
- handle group of users

I initially thought about using an ICAL server (DAVIcal  
[http://rscds.sourceforge.net/](http://rscds.sourceforge.net/))  
but I found nothing that can be queried/used from Ruby.

Do you have any suggestion ?

Thanks in advance  
Sandro

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**Author:** ![sandro\_p](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@sandro\_p](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sandro_p)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 12:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-creating-a-planner-in-ruby/154684/2 "2008-12-03T12:32:34Z")

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Sandro P. wrote:

> Does anyone know a good starting point (a gem, an article, a library,  
> etc…) on how  
> to build a typical Planner/Agenda application ?
> 
> In details, what I need to develop must:
> 
> - handle tasks, appointments and todos
> - keep somehow track of free time
> - be used with ICAL based calendars through subscription
> - handle group of users

If you are learning to program, or learning Ruby, then this may be a  
rather large first bite to chew. That’s because you’ll have to learn  
Ruby, plus some user-interface library (e.g. Tk, or a web framework like  
Rails), plus the ICAL data format and protocol interactions, plus  
scheduling algorithms.

I suggest you start simple. For example, write something which handles  
to-do lists using local storage. You can find a great prototype to copy  
on the web at [www.tadalist.com](http://www.tadalist.com) (that is, for copying how the user  
interface looks; you’ll still have to code it yourself)

> I initially thought about using an ICAL server (DAVIcal  
> [http://rscds.sourceforge.net/](http://rscds.sourceforge.net/))  
> but I found nothing that can be queried/used from Ruby.

Clearly you didn’t enter “ruby ical” into Google.

So don’t expect someone else to do your project/homework for you, when  
you haven’t done the most basic research yourself.