# Ical reader

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ical-reader/127434>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 29, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ical-reader/127434 "2008-01-29T05:56:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/craigrails)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ical-reader/127434/1 "2008-01-29T05:56:13Z")

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Looking for a way that I could open ‘shared’ ical calendar files from my  
intranet.

I suppose that I could use the googlecalendar plugin as a starting point  
to hack but is there some other plugin that I’m missing?

Craig

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**Author:** ![craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/craigrails)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ical-reader/127434/2 "2008-01-29T15:03:05Z")

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On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:42:29PM -0700, Craig W. wrote:

> Looking for a way that I could open ‘shared’ ical calendar files from my  
> intranet.
> 
> I suppose that I could use the googlecalendar plugin as a starting point  
> to hack but is there some other plugin that I’m missing?

If you’re trying to parse ical files, there’s the icalendar gem. I’m not  
100% sure from your post that that’s what you’re after, though.

> Craig  
> –Greg

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**Author:** ![craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@craigrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/craigrails)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ical-reader/127434/3 "2008-01-29T15:40:40Z")

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On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 09:01 -0500, Gregory S. wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:42:29PM -0700, Craig W. wrote:
> 
> > Looking for a way that I could open ‘shared’ ical calendar files from my  
> > intranet.
> > 
> > I suppose that I could use the googlecalendar plugin as a starting point  
> > to hack but is there some other plugin that I’m missing?
> 
> If you’re trying to parse ical files, there’s the icalendar gem. I’m not  
> 100% sure from your post that that’s what you’re after, though.

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appears to be what I am looking for and I installed it yesterday (took a  
long time for this message to reach the list). I’m struggling with the  
gem but I did join the specific gem mail list at rubyforge and am  
working through the issues.

Thanks

Craig