Create Company Card w/ Vpim Gem

Question

I'm using Vpim to generate .vcf files that users can then import into their address books. The problem that I'm having is that the information that their downloading is for a Company and not a person so I need to mark the card as being such. Is there a way to do this using Vpim or is there another gem that I could use to accomplish this?

def to_vcf
  card = Vpim::Vcard::Maker.make2 do |maker|
  ...
  end
end

Source of a Business Card from Address Book

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:;;;;
FN:The Flow Skatepark
ORG:The Flow Skatepark;
item1.TEL;type=pref:(614) 864-1610
item1.X-ABLabel:Work #
item2.ADR;type=WORK;type=pref:;;4252 Groves Rd;Columbus;OH;43232;USA
item2.X-ABADR:us
BDAY;value=date:2001-07-06
X-ABShowAs:COMPANY
X-ABUID:5F7349CB-369F-4EAC-AB65-49ED902BEF9F\:ABPerson
END:VCARD

Source of a Non-Business Card from Address Book

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:;The Flow Skatepark;;;
FN:The Flow Skatepark
item1.TEL;type=pref:(614) 864-1610
item1.X-ABLabel:Work #
item2.ADR;type=WORK;type=pref:;;4252 Groves Rd;Columbus;OH;43232;USA
item2.X-ABADR:us
BDAY;value=date:2001-07-06
X-ABUID:5F7349CB-369F-4EAC-AB65-49ED902BEF9F\:ABPerson
END:VCARD

Obviously there are two main differences in these code samples:

ORG:The Flow Skatepark;
X-ABShowAs:COMPANY

I don't know how this translates into Vpim however.

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Jakobinsky · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-11T19:45:37.660

Quick and dirty implementation, I hope that I understood you correctly:

require 'vpim/vcard'

vcards = <<VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:;;;;
FN:The Flow Skatepark
ORG:The Flow Skatepark;
item1.TEL;type=pref:(614) 864-1610
item1.X-ABLabel:Work #
item2.ADR;type=WORK;type=pref:;;4252 Groves Rd;Columbus;OH;43232;USA
item2.X-ABADR:us
BDAY;value=date:2001-07-06
X-ABShowAs:COMPANY
X-ABUID:5F7349CB-369F-4EAC-AB65-49ED902BEF9F\:ABPerson
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:;The Flow Skatepark;;;
FN:The Flow Skatepark
item1.TEL;type=pref:(614) 864-1610
item1.X-ABLabel:Work #
item2.ADR;type=WORK;type=pref:;;4252 Groves Rd;Columbus;OH;43232;USA
item2.X-ABADR:us
BDAY;value=date:2001-07-06
X-ABUID:5F7349CB-369F-4EAC-AB65-49ED902BEF9F\:ABPerson
END:VCARD
VCARD

contacts = []
Vpim::Vcard.decode(vcards).each do |vcard|
  contacts << {
    first_name:        vcard.name      ? vcard.name.given         : '',
    last_name:         vcard.name      ? vcard.name.family        : '',
    organisation_name: vcard.org       ? vcard.org.first          : '',
  }
end

def to_vcard(card)
  Vpim::Vcard::Maker.make2 do |maker|
    maker.add_name do |name|
      name.given = card[:first_name] unless card[:first_name].empty? || card[:first_name].nil?
      name.family = card[:last_name] unless card[:last_name].empty?  || card[:last_name].nil?
    end
    maker.org = card[:organisation_name] unless card[:organisation_name].empty? || card[:organisation_name].nil?
  end
end

contacts.each_with_index do |contact, idx|
  File.open("contact#{idx}.vcf", 'w') {|f| f.write(to_vcard(contact)) }  
end

Normal vs Company

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 10 '11 at 09:25

Looks like the maker object has a org= method, which you can use to set ORG. As for X-ABShowAs, maker has an add_field method. You can probably create your own field (http://vpim.rubyforge.org/classes/Vpim/DirectoryInfo/Field.html) for that.

Create Company Card w/ Vpim Gem

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