Script for creating reminder tweet texts from ical

content/ical.txt

@@ -30,4 +30,4 @@ cal = RiCal.Calendar do |cal|
     end
   end
 end
-%><%= cal.to_s %>
+%><%= cal.to_s.strip %>

scripts/tweet-reminders.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+# encoding: utf-8
+
+require 'date'
+require 'ri_cal'
+
+
+days=ARGV[0].to_i
+infotext=ARGV[1]
+
+outputlen=140
+urllen=24
+
+RiCal.parse($stdin).each do |calendar|
+  calendar.events.each do |event|
+    start = event.dtstart.to_date
+    if (start-Date.today())==days
+      output = "#{infotext} #{event.summary}".byteslice(0,outputlen)
+      if event.url and event.url.length>0
+        if output.length + urllen + 1 > outputlen
+          output = "#{output.byteslice(0,outputlen - urllen - 1)} #{event.url}"
+        else
+          output = "#{output} #{event.url}"
+        end
+      end
+      puts output
+    end
+  end
+end