tysonmote / siri_says

Siri biz-nass all up in your Ruby

Siri Says

Siri Says gets that Siri biz-nass all up in your Ruby. Inspired by Remember the Milk.

require "rubygems"
require "siri_says"

siri_says /deploy/ do |message|
  puts "> Deploying..."
end

SiriSays::Engine.run( google_username, google_password )

Tell Siri: "Schedule a deploy right now."

(seconds later)

> Deploying...

Boom. Headshot.

Initial setup

This is a bit of a pain. Suck it up, cowboy.

Google Calendar

Add a new "sirisays" calendar.

iPhone

Add the calendar:

1. Settings
2. "Mail, Contacts, Calendars"
3. "Add Account..."
4. "Other"
5. "Add CalDAV Account"
   • Server: google.com
   • Username: [e-mail]
   • Password: ___________
   • Description: "sirisays"
6. "Next"

Make it the default so that Siri will add events to it:

1. Settings
2. "Mail, Contacts, Calendars"
3. "Default Calendar" --> sirisays
4. Go to https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect and choose "sirisays" (not sure if this is necessary, actually...)

Usage

Write Siri Says plugins (as many as you want) with siri_says:

siri_says /deploy/i do |message|
  puts "> Deploying..."
end

siri_says /^say/i do |message|
  puts "> Siri says: #{message.gsub(/^say/i, '')}"
end

Then start SiriSays with your Google Calendar user name and password:

SiriSays::Engine.run( google_username, google_password )

When a message is received (i.e. when a calendar event is added), it will be passed to every block whose associated RegEx is a match for the message. The message is the calendar event's title.

Sending events

Google Calendar doesn't recognize Siri's "reminders". To communicate with Siri Says, you'll need to create actual calendar events. Siri Says recognizes "immediate" events and scheduled events:

Immediate events

To create an immediate event, you can either create an event "now" or "all-day tomorrow":

• "Schedule a deploy right now"
• "Schedule an event right now: deploy"
• "Schedule an appointment tomorrow, all-day: deploy"
• "New appointment now: deploy"
• Etc.

Scheduled events

Create events that fire later just like you would any other scheduled event:

• "New appointment for tomorrow at 4am: deploy"
• "Schedule a deploy tomorrow at 4am"
• "Schedule an event tomorrow at 4am: deploy"
• "Schedule an appointment tomorrow, at 4am: deploy"
• Etc.

To do

• Remove needless dependency on ActiveSupport. I'm lazy.
• Remove dependency on Google Calendar -- allow any CalDAV server.
• Add Twilio SMS support. (bo-ring)

Note

"Siri Says" isn't affiliated or endorsed by Apple in any way, shape, or form. It's just a dumb hack.