* James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb / neurogami.com> [0810 18:10]:
> I recently downloaded Sunbird [0], the calendar application from the 
> Mozilla team. It looks OK, seems to do what I want, even at version 0.2.
> 
> It has a facility for sharing or exchanging calendar data.  This 
> requires WebDAV [1], though.  I'd rather not have to run Apache with 
> mod_webdav on every machine where I want to share a calendar.  I'd 
> prefer to run a lighter Ruby process that handles the WebDAV requests.

Surely you just want one webdav server to host the calendar?
 
> A bigger reason for wanting to have a custom Ruby process handle the 
> calender sharing is that I want to be able to hook Sunbird into my wikis 
> and blogs.  It would be sweet if could add a page to a wiki, use some 
> special markup to indicate that something has a deadline or an 
> associated calendar date, and have that info appear in all my calendars. 
>  and vice versa.

That would be excellent. I think a ruby webdav *client* would be more useful
than a server for a lot of reasons: 

* DAV is still a moving target
* all DAV clients suck

:)

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