Rails: Parsing ical calendar on a password-protected webdav server
Learn how to parse iCal calendars from a password-protected WebDAV server using Ruby on Rails and the iCalendar plugin for seamless integration.
Duration: 0:27 | Size: 0.5 MB
It took me a little while, but I finally got this working. You’ll need the iCalendar plugin.
require 'icalendar'
def view_ical
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new('/calendars/calendar.ics')
response = Net::HTTP.start('webdav.site.com') {|http|
request.basic_auth 'username', 'password'
response = http.request(request)
}
calendar_text = response.body
calendars = Icalendar.parse(calendar_text)
calendar = calendars.first
end
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