Accessing Microsoft Exchange server from Ruby

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I need to sync MS Exchange's contacts with my Ruby on Rails application.

Which is the best way? Would you recommend any existing gems for it?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 24 '10 at 17:55

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One place to start would be the Exchange Developer Center, where Microsoft links to downloads of the different SDKs, documentation, etc. Understandably, most of the docs and examples will be using Microsoft's .NET Framework and languages.

If you want to connect with Exchange 2007 or 2010, you'll probably find it easiest to use some form of Exchange Web Services (EWS) which you may be able to connect to using Ruby web services frameworks like SOAP4R, WSO2, etc.

For Exchange 2003 and earlier, you're much more limited; and programming CDO through Ruby's win32ole is not going to be pretty or fun.

answered Aug 24 '10 at 17:55

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Thanks, man! That helps a lot as a starting point. Do you know if contacts are accessible through WebDAV as well? – micho Aug 26 '10 at 08:12
WebDAV I believe is only available on Exchange 2000 & 2003 with Forms Authentication enabled on OWA; here's a [page with some examples](http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/archive/2007/01/30/how-do-i-access-my-outlook-contacts-from-my-web-application.aspx) (including both WebDAV for older and EWS for newer servers). – ewall Aug 26 '10 at 13:15

Giridhar Bandi · Answer 2 · 2013-03-13T08:18:42.237

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Perhaps https://rubygems.org/gems/exchanger exchanger gem will help you.

Ruby library for accessing Microsoft Exchange using Exchange Web Services. This library tries to make creating and updating items as easy as possible. It will keep track of changed properties and will update only them.

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answered Mar 06 '13 at 19:19

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I came to this question with the same needs as @micho, and this might actually be a great answer (haven't tried it yet). – Matthew Clark Jun 17 '14 at 15:21

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 22 '14 at 16:22

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I tested viewpoint gem and it works. Be sure to follow wiki page for instructions, because readme is a little bit deprecated.

answered Jan 22 '14 at 16:22

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 29 '15 at 23:55

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Updating this thread a bit, 5 years later: this gem looks promising, starting to test it right now: https://github.com/WinRb/Viewpoint

answered Jun 29 '15 at 23:55

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 24 '10 at 13:12

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perhaps using win32ole?

answered Aug 24 '10 at 13:12

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