# #161 Import ICS Calendar events with Gem iCalendar

- URL: https://superails.com/posts/rails-161-import-ics-calendar-events-with-gem-icalendar
- Published: 2024-03-09
- Duration: 14:41
- Access: free
- Topics: calendar

I love building calendars! 
ICS is the default format for a calendar file.
Today we'll learn to read an ICS file and import it into our app.

Recently 37signals released "Import ICS events" as a new feature in Hey Calendar.
You can do it too!

Episode source code: https://github.com/corsego/161-import-ics-calendar-events/commit/0e3704fc5728af60df6bc24f38062f46abfda4ba
Based on this blogpost: https://blog.corsego.com/import-ics-to-calendar

0:00 read the ICS format
2:00 iCalendar gem, parse ICS in rails console
4:24 Form to upload ICS file and save in database
10:00 Upload multiple ICS files
12:15 Write tests

## Chapters

- 0:00 read the ICS format
- 2:00 iCalendar gem, parse ICS in rails console
- 4:24 Form to upload ICS file and save in database
- 10:00 Upload multiple ICS files
- 12:15 Write tests