CorporateTime is a proprietary calendar
server system produced by Oracle,
who acquired the company that made it, Steltor.
Ruby/CorporateTime is a Ruby
language extension that serves as a wrapper to the CorporateTime
Calendar API (CAPI). Its purpose is to allow interaction with
CorporateTime servers via the Ruby programming language.
One possible application of this library is to write a program to
display your agenda for the coming week, without needing to resort to
the CorporateTime GUI. In fact, the tar archive contains an example
program for this very purpose.
Another example is to use it to search for the first available one
hour time slot on your colleague's agenda and book that for a
meeting. I actually do this at work, where it's handy to find and
book sessions with our on-site massage therapists. (Yes, I know we're
spoilt!)
In order to use this software, you should have the CAPI libraries
installed on your computer. These can be obtained from Oracle. To
build from source, you'll also need the ctapi.h header file,
once again available from Oracle.
Ruby/CorporateTime has been verified to work with versions 2.0 and
2.5.1 of the CAPI libraries, and with Steltor CorporateTime server versions
5.2 and 5.4, plus Oracle CorporateTime server 9.0.4.2 (standalone). Both the
client and the server were running Linux in these tests.
You should avoid using version 2.5 of the CAPI, as I have experienced
problems with this version. Use 2.5.1 instead.
As of August 2005, Ruby/CorporateTime is no longer actively developed. This
is chiefly because I no longer have access to a CorporateTime server to test
the code, nor even a need to use CorporateTime.
I am still willing to consider patches for integration, but it would be best
if the project were to be taken under the wing of a new maintainer who can
continue where I have left off. Please contact me if you are interested.
Overview and Introduction
Prerequisites
| File | Type |
|---|---|
| ruby-CorporateTime-0.4.9.tar.gz | tarred and gzipped source |
| ruby-CorporateTime-0.4.9-1.i386.rpm | Binary RPM for Ruby 1.8.x |
| ruby-CorporateTime-0.4.9-1.src.rpm | Source RPM |