Exchange calendar to Ruby object. Please comment the code

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I have written this peace of code to extract data from Exchange calendar
folder and fill it into ruby object, so it can be accesed later like:
    puts calendar.vevent.dtstart
    puts calendar.vevent.dtend
    puts calendar.vevent.attendee
    puts calendar.vevent.description

Since I am still lerning Ruby I am interested what do you old Rubyists
think of the code. Could it be done any better.

Translating this to Hash or even XML should be trivial.

by

TheR

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#############################################################################
#
# Read message from Exchange calendar folder with IMAP and create object
# filled with values from message.
#
# Written by Damjan Rems 16.03.2007
#
#############################################################################
require 'net/imap'

ExchangeCalendar

def addVar(var, val)
  var.gsub!('-','_') # - is not allowed
as variable name
  if instance_variable_get("@#{var}") == nil # if not already set
    instance_variable_set("@#{var}", val) # set it
    eval("def #{var}; @#{var}; end") # define method for
retrive
  else # if already defined than it should be array of values
    if instance_variable_get("@#{var}").class != 'Array' # second
value
      a = Array.new # create
array
      a << instance_variable_get("@#{var}") # add old
value to first element
      instance_variable_set("@#{var}", a) # set
variable to array
    else
      a = instance_variable_get("@#{var}")
    end
    a << val # add new
element to array
  end
end
end

#############################################################################
def msg2calendar(msg)
  ar = Array.new
  ix = 0
  ar[ix] = ExchangeCalendar.new
#
  msg.gsub!("\r\n ",'') # Remove line breaks in data
  msg.each_line do |l|
    l.chomp! # remove whitespace
    dc = l.index(':') # Some keywords are delimited
with colon (:slight_smile:
    i=if (ds = l.index(';')) == nil # some with semicolon (:wink:
      dc
    elsif dc==nil
      ds
    else
      ds < dc ? ds : dc
    end
    key = l[0,i].downcase # get keyword and lowercase it
    val = l[i+1,l.length] # get value

    if key == 'begin' # Create new level if begin
      if val != 'VCALENDAR' # First level is already
prepared
        ix += 1
        ar[ix] = ExchangeCalendar.new
        ar[ix-1].addVar(val.downcase, ar[ix])
      end
    elsif key == 'end' # Step one level back
      ix -= 1
    else
      ar[ix].addVar(key,val) # add new variable
    end
  end
  ar[0]
end

  imap = Net::IMAP.new('mail.domain.com')
  imap.login('user', 'pwd')
  imap.select('Public Folders/Any calendar')
  imap.search(["SINCE", "10-Mar-2007"]).each do |message_id|
    calendar = msg2calendar(imap.fetch(message_id,
"BODY[2]")[0].attr["BODY[2]"])
    puts calendar.vevent.dtstart
    puts calendar.vevent.dtend
    puts calendar.vevent.attendee
    puts calendar.vevent.description
  end

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