Rails: Parsing iCal calendar on a password-protected WebDAV server

October 21, 2007

Rails: Parsing iCal calendar on a password-protected WebDAV server

It took me a little while, but I finally got this working. You’ll need the iCalendar plugin.

require 'icalendar'Â 
def view_ical
Â    request = Net::HTTP::Get.new('/calendars/calendar.ics')Â 
   response = Net::HTTP.start('webdav.site.com') {|http|Â 
     request.basic_auth 'username', 'password'Â 
     response = http.request(request)Â 
   }Â 
   calendar_text = response.body
   calendars = Icalendar.parse(calendar_text)Â 
   calendar = calendars.first
end

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