# Ruby on rails web calendar **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 14, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-web-calendar/112071 "2007-08-14T23:11:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-web-calendar/112071/1 "2007-08-14T23:11:11Z")
Does anyone know of a good web calendar that you can use to display appointments, dates, anniversaries, birthdays, recurring appointments, appointments spanning multiple days? ---
**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 1:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-web-calendar/112071/2 "2007-08-15T01:25:21Z")
Written in rails, i suppose? Otherwise theres excellent solutions like Google C. available… ---
**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 1:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-web-calendar/112071/3 "2007-08-15T01:29:21Z")
Exactly…we need something that uses Ruby on Rails to access the data and create the calendar. ---
**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 1:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-web-calendar/112071/4 "2007-08-15T01:57:22Z")
You could write a parsing system in ruby/rails that uses mysql as it’s backend and then parses out that info to google calendar through their api. But you’d need to parse it, you cannnot connect google calendar directly to a DB. You can however use google calendar as a data storage as well and then write your front end. But if you want to use google calendar as your front and store things in a DB then you will need to coerce the data into a format that the api can use. [Google Calendar  |  Google for Developers](http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/overview.html) for more info about the api. Hope this helps, Cam ---
**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 1:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-web-calendar/112071/5 "2007-08-15T01:30:21Z")
Is it possible to use the google calendar to access mysql data on a local database server and crease a calendar? 🙂 or must the data reside on the google calendar system? ---
**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 5:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-web-calendar/112071/6 "2007-08-15T05:18:32Z")
Thanks! I guess there are no good helpers already written to help this along. I hate to create the wheel again and know someone must be willing to share a library they wrote already. Hope to find that generous person. ---
**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-web-calendar/112071/7 "2007-08-15T13:48:20Z")
Something like this ? [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Calendar+Helper+Plugin](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Calendar+Helper+Plugin) sample visible at [http://rubyonrailsworkshops.com/](http://rubyonrailsworkshops.com/) HTH Mike ---
**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 3:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-web-calendar/112071/8 "2007-08-15T15:04:28Z")
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 04:29:27PM -0700, David wrote: > Is it possible to use the google calendar to access mysql data on a > local database server and crease a calendar? 🙂 or must the data > reside on the google calendar system? Google calendar will happily consume an ical file (see RFC 2445) from an URL and view it as an additional readonly calendar. If you provide your users with an URL (with no authentication, since Google has no way to provide credentials), they will be able to enter it into the Google Calendar interface and view their calendar. This URL will also make it possible for iCal (i.e. on MacOS X) and Sunbird users to view their calendars. If, in addition, you implement full CalDAV support (see RFC 4791) then users of iCal and Sunbird will also be able to edit their calendars, though Google does not (yet?) support CalDAV in any way. –Greg ---
**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-web-calendar/112071/9 "2007-08-18T03:33:07Z")
How about something that you can setup a mysql table and use ruby on rails to create the calendar…switch between daily, weekly, two week and monthly views…create recurring events and so on…like a regular calendar. Any ideas? On Aug 15, 9:01 am, Gregory S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 12:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-web-calendar/112071/10 "2007-08-18T12:14:41Z")
On 18 Aug 2007, at 03:31, David wrote: > How about something that you can setup a mysql table and use ruby on > rails to create the calendar…switch between daily, weekly, two week > and monthly views…create recurring events and so on…like a > regular calendar. Any ideas? I think you’re really out of luck here, I even doubt you’ll find such an all-in-one solution out in the open in any web programming language. The amount of work that goes into such a calendar is enormous. Best regards Peter De Berdt ---
**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-web-calendar/112071/11 "2007-08-18T19:55:47Z")
That is cool Mike. I have a question about the customization of the plug-in. How can I put the events inside the monthly view of the calendar? Thanks, Campbell ---
**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 11:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-web-calendar/112071/12 "2007-08-20T11:49:16Z")
Campbell, this is probably a better option for that: [http://rubyforge.org/projects/railendar/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/railendar/) Mike Gunner wrote: > > Something like this ? > > > – Mike G. email : removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Technical Director fax : +353 68 470 01 XL CRS mobile: +353 87 677 2055 Lisselton phone : +353 68 470 10 Listowel skype : kingdomdude Co. Kerry web : [www.xlcrs.com](http://www.xlcrs.com) ---
**Author:** ![david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-web-calendar/112071/13 "2009-04-25T20:09:40Z")
This is a very helpful conversation, I want to thank you for all the resources provided, I have been reseraching for a while on this topic and found some interesting ones I would like to share: About Google It looks like it is possible, I’m working on make it happen, look: “Or you can generate a public calendar for Google C. to display, based on your organization’s event database.” extract from: [http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/docs/2.0/developers\_guide\_protocol.html](http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/docs/2.0/developers_guide_protocol.html) To study: > **[Google Data on Rails  |  Google Data APIs  |  Google for...](https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/gdata_on_rails?csw=1)** A good plugin, depending on our needs It could be what we need: [http://code.google.com/p/calendardateselect/](http://code.google.com/p/calendardateselect/) This guys made an amazing job, I would like to know more about their implementation: [http://demo.placid.be/account/login](http://demo.placid.be/account/login) It will be amazing to have something like the hula project, it’s a shame nobody is working on this, maybe I’ll retake this project, but working on Ruby of coure :). Have a look at the demo: [http://nat.org/2005/august/hula.html](http://nat.org/2005/august/hula.html) I’s my understanding Novell was providing resources for this project but they abandoned the project. Greetings Mauricio Inguanzo Mike G. wrote: > Campbell, > > this is probably a better option for that: > [http://rubyforge.org/projects/railendar/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/railendar/) > > Mike > > Gunner wrote: > > > > Something like this ? > > > > > > > – > Mike G. email : removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > Technical Director fax : +353 68 470 01 > XL CRS mobile: +353 87 677 2055 > Lisselton phone : +353 68 470 10 > Listowel skype : kingdomdude > Co. Kerry web : [www.xlcrs.com](http://www.xlcrs.com)