Format a calander as one line per day/event

oneline_format.rb

#Script to change the TSCQ calander into a one line format

require 'rubygems'
require 'icalendar'
require 'active_support'

include Icalendar

timezone_offset = 10

# Open a file or pass a string to the parser
cal_file = File.open('TSCQ.ics')

# Parser returns an array of calendars because a single file
# can have multiple calendars.
cals = Icalendar.parse(cal_file)
cal = cals.first

File.open('TSCQ.txt','w') do |f|

  cal.events.sort_by { |e| e.dtstart}.each do |e|
    #Must be a better way to do this... I had to fool around with time zone info.  Also, full day events had a finish time of midnight (needed to bring that back into today)
    dtstart = DateTime.parse(e.dtstart.to_s) 
    dtend = DateTime.parse(e.dtend.to_s) 
    dtstart += 10.hours if (dtstart.hour > 0 || dtend.hour > 0)
    dtend += dtend.hour > 0 ? 10.hours : -1.second

    first_date = true
    while Date.parse(dtstart.strftime('%Y/%m/%d')) <= Date.parse(dtend.strftime('%Y/%m/%d'))
      display_time = (first_date && dtstart.hour > 0) ? "#{dtstart.strftime('%H:%M')}" : "     "

      f.puts "#{dtstart.strftime('%d/%m/%Y')} #{display_time} #{e.summary}"
      dtstart+=1
      first_date = false
    end  

  end
 
end