Exchanger

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.

Supported operations

• FindItem, GetItem, CreateItem, UpdateItem, DeleteItem
• FindFolder, GetFolder
• ResolveNames, ExpandDL
• GetUserAvailability

Installing

gem install exchanger

Configuration

Exchanger.configure do |config|
  config.endpoint = "https://domain.com/EWS/Exchanger.asmx"
  config.username = "username"
  config.password = "password"
end

or configure from YAML

Exchanger::Config.instance.from_hash(YAML.load_file("#{Rails.root}/config/exchanger.yml")[Rails.env])

Examples

Creating and updating contacts

folder = Exchanger::Folder.find(:contacts)
contact = folder.new_contact
contact.given_name = "Edgars"
contact.surname = "Beigarts"
contact.email_addresses = [ Exchanger::EmailAddress.new(:key => "EmailAddress1", :text => "[email protected]") ]
contact.phone_numbers = [ Exchanger::PhoneNumber.new(:key => "MobilePhone", :text => "+371 80000000") ]
contact.save # CreateItem operation
contact.company_name = "Example Inc."
contact.save # UpdateItem operation
contact.destroy # DeleteItem operation

Searching in Global Address Book

mailboxes = Exchanger::Mailbox.search("John")

Alternatives

• Exchange Clients in Ruby Toolbox