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Revolution is a Ruby binding for the Evolution email client. It's sponsored - i.e., written on work time and open sourced with a BSD license - by InfoEther.
If you have RubyGems installed, you can install Revolution from the gem server like this:
[root@hal revolution]# gem install --remote revolution Attempting remote installation of 'revolution' Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org Building native extensions. This could take a while... ruby extconf.rb install --remote revolution creating Makefile make [ make output elided ] make install make: Nothing to be done for `install'. Successfully installed revolution-0.5 [root@hal revolution]#
Or you can download the Gem and do the same thing without using the --remote flag.
Note that the build process assumes that you have the evolution-data-server-devel header files and whatnot installed. I've developed this on Fedora Core 3, so if you get the RPMs for that it should work fine.
Or you can download the zip file; it contains a precompiled shared object library as well as the source code and the extconf.rb necessary to rebuild it.
To use Revolution, you'll need Ruby, Revolution itself, and of course an Evolution installation.
Here's the complete API documentation; below are some simple examples:
require 'rubygems'
require 'revolution'
r = Revolution::Revolution.new
r.get_all_contacts.each {|c|
puts "First name: #{c.first_name}"
puts "Last name: #{c.last_name}"
c.email_addresses.keys.each {|k|
puts " #{k} email addresses: #{c.email_addresses[k].join(' ')}"
}
}
last_week = Time.new.to_i-(7*24*60*60)
next_week = Time.new.to_i+(7*24*60*60)
r.get_all_appointments(last_week, next_week).each {|appt|
puts "Summary: #{appt.summary}"
puts "Location: #{appt.location}"
puts "Organizer: #{appt.organizer}"
}
r.get_all_tasks.each {|t|
puts "Summary: #{t.summary}"
puts "Description: #{t.description.slice(0,70)}"
puts "Due date: #{t.due}"
}
Revolution provides an easy way to quickly test the s-expression query format that Evolution uses internally. Here's an example session from interactive Ruby - irb.
First some initialization:
[tom@hal revolution]$ irb irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems' => true irb(main):002:0> require_gem 'revolution' => true irb(main):003:0> rev = Revolution::Revolution.new => #<Revolution::Revolution:0xf6cefa6c>
Now, on to querying all the Copelands:
irb(main):004:0> rev.get_contacts_with_query("(contains 'full_name' 'Copeland')").each {|c| puts c.first_name }
Madelyn
Lee
Alina
Dave
We should get the same results when using the beginswith identifier:
irb(main):009:0> rev.get_contacts_with_query("(beginswith 'full_name' 'Copeland')").each {|c| puts c.first_name }
Madelyn
Lee
Alina
Dave
irb(main):010:0>
Yup, right on. So how many InfoEther folks are in my contact book?
irb(main):021:0> rev.get_contacts_with_query("(endswith 'email' 'infoether.com')").size
=> 7
irb(main):022:0>
Hm, and we've only got five employees. How odd.
Anyhow, that gives you an idea on how it works. Perhaps future releases will have a similar querying functionality for appointments and tasks... if that sounds useful to you, please file an RFE.
If there's anything we can add to make this documentation more helpful, please let us know about it by posting to the project forum. Thanks!
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