require 'simplevpim'

s = '
# vevent

title: Book Festival
start: 15 Aug
end:   17 Aug
location: Edinburgh
description: Refreshments included
'

card = SimpleVpim.new(s).to_vevent
puts card

Output:

BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Book Festival
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210815
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210817
LOCATION:Edinburgh
DESCRIPTION:Refreshments included
END:VEVENT

simplevpim event calendar vevent

This morning I read that the government were adopting the vCard and iCalendar formats as standard. Out of interest I discovered there was a Ruby gem which could generate a vCard, and iCalendar format, however it didn't seem that convenient to use. Which is why I created the SimplevPim gem which is a wrapper for the vPim gem.

e.g.

require 'simplevpim'

s = '
# vcard

name: James Robertson
email:
  home: james@jamesrobertson.eu
  work: jrobertsonfunjob@gmail.com
'

card = SimpleVpim.new(s).to_vcard
puts card

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:Robertson;James;;;
FN:James Robertson
EMAIL;TYPE=work:jrobertsonfunjob@gmail.com
EMAIL;TYPE=home:james@jamesrobertson.eu
END:VCARD

I only just wrote the gem today, however it has potential to be a convenient tool for anyone wanting to generate their own vCard.

update: 04-Nov-2014 @ 21:02

The gem can now handle a single URL or multiple URLs:

e.g.

require 'simplevpim'

s = '
# vcard

name: James Robertson
email:
  home: james@jamesrobertson.eu
  work: jrobertsonfunjob@gmail.com
url:  http://www.jamesrobertson.eu/
'

card = SimpleVpim.new(s).to_vcard
puts card

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:Robertson;James;;;
FN:James Robertson
EMAIL;TYPE=work:jrobertsonfunjob@gmail.com
EMAIL;TYPE=home:james@jamesrobertson.eu
URL:http://www.jamesrobertson.eu/
END:VCARD

require 'simplevpim'

s = '
# vcard

name: James Robertson
email:
  home: james@jamesrobertson.eu
  work: jrobertsonfunjob@gmail.com
url:
  http://www.jamesrobertson.eu/
  https://github.com/jrobertson/
'

card = SimpleVpim.new(s).to_vcard
puts card

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:Robertson;James;;;
FN:James Robertson
EMAIL;TYPE=work:jrobertsonfunjob@gmail.com
EMAIL;TYPE=home:james@jamesrobertson.eu
URL:http://www.jamesrobertson.eu/
URL:https://github.com/jrobertson/
END:VCARD

• ?simplevpim https://rubygems.org/gems/simplevpim?
• ?vCard Maker - Free electronic business card generator http://vcardmaker.com/?
• ?sam-github/vpim https://github.com/sam-github/vpim?
• ?vCard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard?
• ?vCard and iCalendar are now government open standards https://governmenttechnology.blog.gov.uk/2014/10/31/vcard-and-icalendar-are-now-government-open-standards-2/?

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