iCalendar stream for user/canteen

[nikriek]

Hi there, I already spoke to Malte about my idea to implement a calendar API for users. I thought about the following scenarios:

1. There is a public stream for each canteen.
2. The user can generate a link to a stream based on his canteen favorites. (auth via token)

The url should handle some parameters like "show event for all day" or "event's time based on the canteen's opening hours". A response then contains events with the parsed information for each day. I would also build a small url generator for users based on your decisions.

For the implementation I found ri_cal and/or icalendar.

Please provide me some feedback on what you want me to implement. Thanks :)

[nikriek]

[cmur2]

Scenario 1 in combination with a sane default like "show event for all day" seems like the least effort... since you asked which scenario would suit you most?

Do you have any experience with any of the ical-gems regarding ease of use, robustness, development status etc.?

[nikriek]

The mentioned scenario with the least effort suits best for me, I think. "All day" is light (as in my inspiration Wunderlist) and it's also quite easy to append a calendar stream to the /api/v2/canteens/:canteen_id/meals endpoint. Is this still RESTful btw?

I just played around with the gems, so no real experience. But since the icalendar gem has a lot more downloads on rubygems.org and a good reputation, I would use this one.

I can build a small prototype. How about a meetup then if one you is studying at HPI?

[jgraichen]

You can also just fork and push your prototype there (and make a PR maybe).

[nikriek]

Ok, what's the best way to get some data for my database?

[cmur2]

You may want to join us via IRC on Freenode #openmensa for discussing in a more chat-ty way :)

[nikriek]

Can someone send me some data? :)