Editing Outlook Calendars With Ruby
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
I admit it. I’m a pretty lazy guy. I don’t have much patience for mind-numbingly repetitive tasks. They bring me down. Editing my Outlook calendar every day is simply a waste of time in my opinion. I figured that there must be a way to automatically create appointments through some kind of script. Then I wondered if Ruby could help.
After doing some quick research, I found out that it’s actually quite easy to connect Ruby and Outlook. This is done through Microsoft’s Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) protocol. I wasn’t able to find a definitive tutorial for Ruby and OLE, but there is enough information scattered about the internet to get a simple script up and running.