# Looking for Ideas on Scheduling + Day by Day View of Week **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 29, 2009, 6:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-ideas-on-scheduling-day-by-day-view-of-week/171226 "2009-06-29T06:07:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ziggles](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/7ba0ec/32.png) [@ziggles](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ziggles)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 6:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-ideas-on-scheduling-day-by-day-view-of-week/171226/1 "2009-06-29T06:07:59Z")
Hi All, Fishing for ideas here and would love to hear what you have to say. I have a Course model that, as you may have guessed, manages my Courses. A course has: - A start time (with minutes in 15 minute intervals aka 8:15am, 8:30am, etc) - An ending time (with minutes in 15 minute intervals aka 1:45pm, 2:00pm, etc) - Days in the week on which the course meets (i.e. Monday, Tuesday and Friday) My end goal is to show the user a “calendar”, or grid, with Monday-Friday on the X axis and 8am-8pm on the Y axis. I would like to show the classes as colored blocks on the calender so the user could visually see a class’ duration. Something like this: [http://tinyurl.com/lj84u4](http://tinyurl.com/lj84u4) Any thoughts/suggestions on how i can do this? Here are 2 ideas that i have had: 1. Create a table with every 4 vertical cells representing 1 hour. Some how build some logic that as the table’s rows are being printed out figure out if a box needs to be colored or not? 2. Possibly use CSS, a fixed height div, and other inner divs that might be positioned absolute or use a %… not sure if that would work though. 3. Say screw it! jk 🙂 Thank you for taking time to read this. ---
**Author:** ![ziggles](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/7ba0ec/32.png) [@ziggles](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ziggles)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 7:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-ideas-on-scheduling-day-by-day-view-of-week/171226/2 "2009-06-29T07:40:27Z")
Looks like this question is more of an html/presentation question, you may get more help on a different forum. If you’re looking for an application like google calender, I would recommend javascript, its a hair difficult to debug, but it will render the same in every browser, be quick, and very flexible. (google’s calender app is written in Javascript). Here is one existing scheduler application written in javascript: [http://www.scriptcalendar.com/javascript-appointment/javascript-appointment.aspx](http://www.scriptcalendar.com/javascript-appointment/javascript-appointment.aspx) do some more searching, this seems like a relatively common item, don’t re-invent the wheel. If you’re not familiar with javascript building this functionality up from the ground won’t be easy. If the schedule won’t change much you could certainly do this in CSS. Or you could make your calender in a calender application and take a screenshot of it, then just post a picture. It all really depends on why you want a calender like this. Is it for others to tell your schedule? Is it for others to schedule some sort of appointment with you, etc… If anyone else has an opinion feel free to chime in… ---
**Author:** ![ziggles](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/7ba0ec/32.png) [@ziggles](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ziggles)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-ideas-on-scheduling-day-by-day-view-of-week/171226/3 "2009-06-29T18:11:34Z")
Richard S. wrote: > Looks like this question is more of an html/presentation question, you > may get more help on a different forum. Yup. > If you’re looking for an > application like google calender, I would recommend javascript, its a > hair difficult to debug, but it will render the same in every browser, JavaScript render the same in every browser? Ha! 🙂 (Yes, it’s possible, but it takes some understanding of the differences in browsers.) > be quick, and very flexible. (google’s calender app is written in > Javascript). There’s no reason to use JavaScript for this unless, like Google Calendar, you want sophisticated client-side behavior. Using JS will certainly not address the basic issue of how to build up the schedule grid in the first place. […] > If the schedule > won’t change much you could certainly do this in CSS. > […] You will _have to_ use HTML and CSS to create the layout, whether or not JS is involved. (Unless you do the whole thing through DOM manipulation from scratch…but that’s such a terrible idea that it’s not worth serious consideration.) I’ve heard that calendar\_helper might be worth looking at. ## Best, Marnen Laibow-Koser [http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid