iCalendar

If you are looking for a Ruby library to deal with iCalendar files, look no further than iCalendar. This library allows you to easily capture and exchange calendaring and scheduling information normally stored within a Personal Information Manager (PIM) or a Group Scheduling product.

To give you an idea of just how important calendaring and scheduling has become in the enterprise and inter-enterprise business world, just take a look at the introduction from RFC-2445. This memo was created to address the need for Internet standards for message content types used in these knowledge-based applications. The iCalendar format was developed in response to this need, and it provides a MIME content type for exchanging electronic calendaring and scheduling information.

The iCalendar format is perfect for use as an exchange format between different applications and systems, and it is defined in terms of a MIME content type. This makes it possible to exchange the object using various transports, including HTTP, a file system, SMTP, desktop interactive protocols, wired-network transport, and more.

One important note to keep in mind is that iCalendar is developed, provided, and licensed under the terms of the Ruby License. If you need to deal with iCalendar files in your Ruby-based application, give iCalendar a try today!