That girl that called you last tuesday...that'll be your mom right!

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Maybe you can post some hints, how to run the ruby script. Thx.

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Should my iPhone actually be connected to iTunes when running the script?

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What a great idea.

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ok this is just cool, thats one thing i hate on my old dumb-phone is that the logging of calls is never really complete, and since i get business cars i'd really like a graphical layout of when my missed calls came in and if i can look at a calendar to see it then hell ya!

One question does anyone know if theirs a iPhone app to moderate calls? like to block certain numbers but not others, or to silent certain numbers but not others etc perhaps with scheduling?

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Would someone post or point to a tutorial on how to run these scirpts manually and/or automatically?
TIA

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All I did was unzip the file, drag that into my terminal and it worked. Pretty cool. The only extra step was creating a new calendar in iCal named "Call Log". Hope this helps.

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Last login: Wed Nov 7 19:43:18 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
XXX-PowerBook-2:~ XXX$ /Downloads/iphonelogd.rb
/Downloads/iphonelogd.rb:36:in `require': No such file to load -- rubygems (LoadError)
from /Downloads/iphonelogd.rb:36

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Maybe its just me, but I cant get this to work at all. No errors, nothing, just executes then ends. :( Too bad, this would be awesome.

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Works great thanks. I just created a new calendar called "Call Log" and ran the script from the terminal. By changing the name to "iphonelogd.command" you can double click it and have it do its thing from the Finder.

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1 - set-up Call Log Calendar on Mac - then close app.
2 - open terminal on Mac
3 - drag iphonelogd.rb into terminal and run it.
Works for anyone in your address book. Needs Leopard.

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Great idea !! not very usable yet . It would be a lot more usable as a separate log with incoming and outgoing labels like TreoCallLog

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This is awesome. I love this!

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NEEDS LEOPARD = Huge caveat

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BTW, this *might* work on Tiger if you install the Ruby items: Gems, RubyCocoa and SqlLite3. Don't quote me on that as I haven't tried it, but I know Ruby is more strongly represented in Leopard and this script uses those extension. I'm guessing that's why it's Leopard only at the moment.

If anyone gets it to work in Tiger, let the Tiger folks know.

Cheers,
FL

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The easiest way to set this up to run is using "Lingon" which is a free tool that lets you manage launchd entries.

I first checked out the log code to a directory with svn, and then I run the ruby script from that location once an hour with launchd. You can download as you normally would any file and place it on your hard disk where you like and follow these directions as well if SVN is beyond you.

My Lingon settings (update to suite your tastes):

1) org.yourlastname.iphonelogd
2) /usr/bin/ruby /Users/glenn/src/git-svn/iphonelogd/iphonelogd.rb 'iPhone Call Log'
3) 'Run it every 1 hours'
4) save it, and logout/login again or restart your mac

Lingon is awesome, is open source, newly updated for leopard, and can be found here:

http://lingon.sourceforge.net/

And yes this needs Leopard since the Ruby language runtime, the frameworks to integrate it with OS X, and ruby gem libraries are only installed in Leopard now that Ruby (and its friend Ruby on Rails) are now first class programming languages in OS X 10.5. The Apple engineers did a lot of work to integrate Ruby tightly with OS X for this release (WooHoo!). Not sure its possible to run this particular code in 10.4 at all. I think you'll start seeing a lot more about Ruby in the OS X context in the days to come.

Enjoy.

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This would be great if it can interface the call logs with Daylite3, which is what I have been waiting for all along so we can log calls to our customers.

Unfortunatley there is (yet) still no legal iPhone in Canada as we have to wait for the behemoth Rogers to get around to getting us real cell phones.

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I am attempting to make this work under Tiger. So far I have done the following:
- upgraded ruby to 1.8.5
- installed RubyCocoa0.12.0
- fixed up readline so irb would run

Then I commented all the iCal stuff out of the script so that I could first concentrate on reading and capturing the log. I did this because the Calendar framework (/System/Library/Frameworks/CalendarStore.framework) is not present in Tiger.

I make no promises since I have to work on this in my (almost non-existent) spare time. If anyone else is looking at this and wants to compare notes let me know.

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How often do you need to run this? My Recent Calls list only goes back as far as last Wednesday (today is Saturday). I'm guessing that if it doesn't show in Recent Calls on the iPhone it's gone?

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I was wondering about this myself. Does anyone know how the calls list on the sync'd machine is populated? Does it get updated or deleted on each sync? Is there a direct correspondence between the Recent Calls list on the phone and what is saved on the sync'd machine.

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