Question

I’m trying to use gcal4ruby to add an event to a google calendar. When I run my code, I get this error:

undefined method `start=' for #<GCal4Ruby::Event:0x00000102bb47b8>

Here’s my code:

service = GCal4Ruby::Service.new
service.authenticate("username", "password")
cal = GCal4Ruby::Calendar.find(service, "calendarname", :first)
event = GCal4Ruby::Event.new(cal)
event.title = "Soccer Game"
event.start = Time.parse("12-06-2009 at 12:30 PM")
event.end = Time.parse("12-06-2009 at 1:30 PM")
event.where = "Merry Playfields"
event.save  

The error occurs on the line “event.start = …”

This is confusing me because this code is literally copied from the documentation.

EDIT: After opening up the actual .rb files of the plugin, it turns out the documentation is simply wrong. the methods event.start and event.end should be event.start_time and event.end_time. But now I’m getting this error:

undefined method `editable' for nil:NilClass

At the “event.save” line. Anyone work with this plugin and have a clue? Or can suggest a library for working with google calendar that has better documentation? 😉

Answer 1

Try changing the event assignment to

event = GCal4Ruby::Event.new(service)

If that doesn’t work I’d do a gem which gcal4ruby (or whatever the name of the gem is) and look at the code there. Because according to the source code the start method definitely exists.