Ruby ICalendar Gem: How to get e-mail reminders working.
- by Jenny
I'm trying to work out how to use the icalendar ruby gem, found at:
http://icalendar.rubyforge.org/
According to their tutorial, you do something like:
cal.event.do
# ...other event properties
alarm do
action "EMAIL"
description "This is an event reminder" # email body (required)
summary "Alarm notification" # email subject (required)
attendees %w(mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected]) # one or more email recipients (required)
add_attendee "mailto:[email protected]"
remove_attendee "mailto:[email protected]"
trigger "-PT15M" # 15 minutes before
add_attach "ftp://host.com/novo-procs/felizano.exe", {"FMTTYPE" => "application/binary"} # email attachments (optional)
end
alarm do
action "DISPLAY" # This line isn't necessary, it's the default
summary "Alarm notification"
trigger "-P1DT0H0M0S" # 1 day before
end
alarm do
action "AUDIO"
trigger "-PT15M"
add_attach "Basso", {"VALUE" => ["URI"]} # only one attach allowed (optional)
end
So, I am doing something similar in my code.
def schedule_event
puts "Scheduling an event for " + self.title + " at " + self.start_time
start = self.start_time
endt = self.start_time
title = self.title
desc = self.description
chan = self.channel.name
# Create a calendar with an event (standard method)
cal = Calendar.new
cal.event do
dtstart Program.convertToDate(start)
dtend Program.convertToDate(endt)
summary "Want to watch" + title + "on: " + chan + " at: " + start
description desc
klass "PRIVATE"
alarm do
action "EMAIL"
description desc # email body (required)
summary "Want to watch" + title + "on: " + chan + " at: " + start # email subject (required)
attendees %w(mailto:[email protected]) # one or more email recipients (required)
trigger "-PT25M" # 25 minutes before
end
end
However, I never see any e-mail sent to my account... I have even tried hard coding the start times to be Time.now, and sending them out 0 minutes before, but no luck... Am I doing something glaringly wrong?
