Automatic Birthday Remainder Using Ruby & Notify-Bin

Automatic Birthday Remainder Program

Hi , This Program runs works as Birthday Remainder in our local system . Just try this !

It will display our friends name and photo in desktop like notifier whenever u switch on ur system on.

It will remaind u on,

1) Today’s B Day

2) Tomorrow’s B Day

Installation :

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To Notify :

$ sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin

To Ruby :

$ sudo apt-get install ruby

$ sudo apt-get install rubygems

$ sudo gem install activesupport

Datebase :

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In this “database” file which having friends name, dob , image_path.

You can edit and add new line in order of name , dob , image_path with separated by comma.

database file:

Arulalan,01-01,~/birthday_remainder/Arulalan.jpg

Dhastha,31-12,default

Conditions:

1) first field must have name

2) second filed have dob. It is date and month order only. date ( from 01 to 31 ) & month ( from 01 to 12 ).

The date and month are separeted by minus symbol(-).

eg: 09-05 ( 9th day , May month )

3) third field have the image location path. This image will be displayed on monitor ( notify )

create ond directory “ birthday_remainder” in ur home folder.

U can set path like this. eg : ~/birthday_remainder/Arulalan.jpg ( If u stored the image in this folder ) or u can set any image path

If u dont have image then set the third field as “default” eg: Dhastha,31-12,default

This “default” option will invoke inbuild image path. this inbuild image is stored in “birthday_remainder” folder itself. path is : ~/birthday_remainder/cake.jpeg

you may add any no of lines in this database file.

bday.rb:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require “rubygems”

require “active_support”

sleep(10)

file=File.open(“database”,”r”)

file.each do |bday|

bday=bday.chomp!

bday=bday.split(/,/)

name=bday[0].to_s

dob=bday[1].to_s

image_path=bday[2].to_s

if image_path==”default” then

image_path=”~/birthday_remainder/cake.jpeg”

end

dob=dob.split(/-/)

current_time=Time.now

month=current_time.month.to_s

day=current_time.day.to_s

if month.to_i <10 then

month=”0″+month

end

tomorrow=1.day.from_now.to_s

tomorrow=tomorrow.split(/ /)

p tomorrow

if dob[1]==month then

if dob[0]==day then

system(“notify-send ‘BirthDay Remainder’ ‘Today #{name} Birthday’ -i #{image_path} -t 3000″)

sleep(10)

system(“notify-send ‘BirthDay Remainder’ ‘Did U wished #{name} Birthday ?’ -t 0″)

end

if dob[0]==(tomorrow[2]) then

system(“notify-send ‘BirthDay Remainder’ ‘Tomorrow #{name} Birthday’ -i #{image_path} -t 3000″)

sleep(10)

system(“notify-send ‘BirthDay Remainder’ ‘Did U Purchased Gift For #{name} Birthday ?’ -t 0″)

end

end

mon=["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"]

today=Time.now.to_s

today=today.split(/ /)

today[1].to_s

x=mon.index(today[1]).to_i

y=mon.index(tomorrow[1]).to_i

if (x+1==y or tomorrow[1]==”Jan” ) and dob[0]==”01″ then

system(“notify-send ‘BirthDay Remainder’ ‘Tomorrow #{name} Birthday’ -i #{image_path} -t 3000″)

sleep(10)

system(“notify-send ‘BirthDay Remainder’ ‘Did U Purchased Gift For #{name} Birthday ?’ -t 0″)

end

end

Change Permission :

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here , you must make “birthday_remainder” folder in ur home folder and paste this bday.rb and database file and corresponding images .

$ sudo chmod -R 777 ~/ birthday_remainder/

Adding into Start Up Application :

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In ubuntu 9.10 version :

1) Go to “System” -> “Preferences” -> “Startup Applications”

2) Click “Add” button

3) Now click “Browse” button and comes to home folder-> birthday_remainder folder-> bday.rb ( select bday.rb )

4) In Name field , type as ” Birthday Remainder”

5) Then click “Add” button

* u can enable (check box )or edit or remove whatever u add in startup application

Logout or Restart :

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Now u can see the bday remainder in ur desktop.

How to check :

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If u wanna to check this program , then u change the dob of database file into curent date.

this prog will remaind u today’s and tomorrow’s b day….

* It will remaind u in all calender days like 28,29,30,31 & leap year.

Today B Day Remaindser

 

u can get this program and guide lines as document from here :

Link : http://www.slideshare.net/arulalan/automatic-b-day-remainder-program

 

 

Have a fun !

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