Schedule

This gem allows you to quickly insert your calendar availability to any plain (or rich) text field. It connects with a single Google account but can pull appointments from various calendars. At Karuna, we have this hooked up to an Alfred workflow (which you can find here!).

$ gem install schedule-cli

$ schedule -h
Schedule commands:
  schedule availability type|duration offset  # print availability table
  schedule config                             # open config file in default editor
  schedule help [COMMAND]                     # Describe available commands or one specific command
  schedule reset

Run schedule availability to get your default availability table, which shows slots for a 30 minute meeting in a 3-day span centered on the weekday following today. Weekends are not considered as open slots unless the center date (offset) is a weekend.

The command can optionally be passed two arguments. The first is either the name of a named event (see below), or a number of minutes to specify a duration. The second is a string (such as "next wednesday") which specifies the center of the range to be scheduled over.

The command defaults to outputting plain text, but is much more useful when in HTML mode (pass the --html flag). This HTML can then be converted to RTF, e.g. using schedule availability --html | textutil -stdin -format html -convert rtf -stdout.

The following configuration flags are available. The YAML config file can be edited by running schedule config.

• calendars is a list of Calendar IDs to pull appointments from.

• day has two keys, start and end, which respectively indicate the earliest and latest times an event can be held in a day.

• defaults contains a bunch of options that are applied to events by default, but can be overridden by named events in the events list.

  • align_to gives the number of minutes to align each event slot to. Defaults to 15.
  • day_offset gives the default offset (center) for a span of days over which an event can be scheduled. Defaults to "next weekday", and can be any simple string describing a relative date.
  • day_buffer gives the number of days on either side of the center to be considered for scheduling events. Defaults to 1.
  • duration gives the number of minutes an event should last for
  • min_delay gives the number of hours in the future that an event must be scheduled after

• footer is an HTML string that is inserted after the table. This is used to include something like a Calendly link.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/yasyf/schedule-cli.