SiriCal

SiriCal is a simple limited solution to handle iOS 5 Siri feature in your Ruby app :

• provides Siri helpers to your ruby app by synchronizing google calendar events.
• an alternative limited solution before Apple release an API for Siri.
• relies on google_calendar gem : google_calendar.

This gem is much inspired by Tyson Tale's hack: siri_says.

You can use the latest Rails 3 gem with the latest SiriCal gem:

In your gemfile

gem 'siri_cal'

or using rubygems

gem install siri_cal

After you install SiriCal, you need to run the generator:

rails generate siri_cal:install

The generator will install:

• an initializer which describes most SiriCal’s configuration options.
• a step file which describe siri sayings

Add the calendar:

1. Settings
2. "Mail, Contacts, Calendars"
3. "Add Account..."
4. "Other"
5. "Add CalDAV Account"
   • Server: google.com
   • Username: username@gmail.com
   • Password: ___________
   • Description: "sirical"
6. "Next"

Choose the calendar as default so Siri will add events to it:

1. Settings
2. "Mail, Contacts, Calendars"
3. "Default Calendar" --> sirical

A model

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  siriable
  has_many  :movies
end

Be sure to have 2 fields containing your google calendar

• login (siriable_login here)
• password (siriable_password here)

db/schema.rb should look like:

create_table "users", :force => true do |t|
  t.string   "name"
  t.string   "siriable_login"
  t.string   "siriable_password"
  t.datetime "created_at"
  t.datetime "updated_at"
end

In lib/siri_says/default.rb

says /a movie (.+)/i do |movie_name|
  puts "[Siri] Movie '#{movie_name}' scheduled by #{@object.name} at #{@event.start_time}"
end

• @object is the User instance "bob"
• @event is the Google::Event instance

Tell Siri:

"Schedule a movie transformers right now."

In your ruby code:

user = User.create :name => "bob", :siriable_login => "bob@gmail.com", :siriable_password => "bobibob"
user.execute_siri!

(seconds later)

[Siri] Movie 'transformers' scheduled by bob at 2010-11-08 12:20

From Siri Says :

To create an immediate event, you can either create an event "now" or "all-day tomorrow":

• "Schedule a movie right now"
• "Schedule an event right now: movie"
• "Schedule an appointment tomorrow, all-day: movie"
• "New appointment now: movie"
• Etc.

Create events that fire later just like you would any other scheduled event:

• "New appointment for tomorrow at 4am: deploy"
• "Schedule a deploy tomorrow at 4am"
• "Schedule an event tomorrow at 4am: deploy"
• "Schedule an appointment tomorrow, at 4am: deploy"
• Etc.

Tested under Rails 3.X.

Pull requests for features and bug fix with tests are welcome.

This is my first gem so please consider this as beta version.

• Find an asynchronous way to get calendar events.
• Possibility to use different caldav servers, not only gmail.

This project rocks and uses MIT-LICENSE.