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your Google Contacts address book as XML
Today I came across a rather interesting thread on the googlecl-discuss mailing list, it’s subject was “Backing up contacts“, and it thrilled me instantly. With this command line, you get your address book dumped as completely, as it currently can get:
$ google contacts list –title=” –fields=xml
Of course you must have an up-to-date gdata-python-client and googlecl installation. But you do have that anyway, don’t you? I updated mine today.
Yes, the XML misses an enclosing top-level element – but you can add that easily.
I would also love to see the groupMembershipInfo in a rather “accessible” way, but I guess, that will also come sooner or later.
This lists alls groups (and not in XML for currently trivial reasons), but I am not able to relate the groups to the (group) URIs mentioned in the contacts XML:
$ google contacts list-groups –title=” –fields=xml –verbose “.*”
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My FRITZ!Box call monitor software will make use of the XML Google Contacts rather soon. That way I can skip all the current JRuby CSV and m17n problems. Its also more comfortable to download, because I can do that on the command line. And if it’s more comfortable, you do it more often. Backing up your address book frequently isn’t a bad idea either, right?!
Update 2011-03-28:
Task accomplished for my FRITZ!Box call monitor software, also if executed through jruby-1.6.0. -
movie: Unknown (2011) – IMDb
The location of the thriller is Berlin; the main characters are played by Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger.
The way from the Adlon hotel to the Tegel airport does not go through Oberbaumbrücke, where the car dumps into the rive – but then: who minds this?
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RVM: Ruby Version Manager
http://rvm.io (!!! worth having a look there for the most up-to-date installation procedure !!!)
Allows you to work very well with more than one ruby installation, just like App::perlbrew for perl.
The rvm command is implemented through a lot of bash functions.
The PragProg ruby3 and the jruby book both talk about rvm, and it looks, as if rvm is really quite helpful, if you deal with more than one ruby interpreter.
I installed rvm locally on an openSUSE-11.3 system and also remotely (git-based), and also on Mac OS X 10.6.6 (not git-based (yet)).
Update 2011-02-22:
Output from my $HOME/.bashrc disturbed the smooth execution of rvm, I had to remove that output (although I really liked that).Update 2011-07-15 – how to upgrade:
$ rvm get stable
$ rvm reload
$ rvm list known
$ rvm list
$ rvm install jruby-1.6.99999
$ rvm install ruby-1.9.99999
$ rvm all do gem install xml-simple
$ …Update 2012-01-… – trouble with “get head”!!!
$ rvm get head # looks broken, avoid it for the time being!
This really caused me a lot of grief and fear.$ rvm get stable # better for me
Update 2013-09-30
(Nowadays) before running rvm, you need to run some initialisation code:
source $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm