Event Calendar in Rails

Rails
1

Hi,

I’m looking to develop a dynamic event calendar for a rails
application. I found some nifty little embeddable calendars in jQuery
and Moo Tools that use Json feeds but they seem to conflict with some
features that I have already developed using prototype.

Is there a rails plugin that I can work with or an embeddable
prototype solution that I can feed with xml or json?

If anybody has any advice or tips please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

2

Try calendar_helper Rails plugin. I’m using this in my events-based
app right now and love it! It adds appropriate classes to your table
cells and allows you to add your own classes as well, if you’d rather.
Plus: No javascript necessary. :slight_smile:

http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/calendar_helper

In my app, I display the event type, the comedian name with a link to
edit, ticket price and showtime:

controller:

@year = params[:year].blank? ? Date.today.year : params[:year].to_i
@month = params[:month].blank? ? Date.today.month : params
[:month].to_i
@events = Event.all

view:

<%= calendar({:year => @year, :month => @month}) do |d|
cell_text = “#{d.mday}
”
cell_attrs = {:class => ‘day’}
@events.each do |e|
if e.showtime.mday == d.mday
cell_text << link_to ( e.comedian.full_name, :action => ‘edit’,
:id
=> e ) << “
”
cell_text << e.event_type << “
”
cell_text << e.ticket_price << “
”
cell_text << e.showtime << “
”
cell_attrs[:class] = ‘event_date’
end
end
[cell_text, cell_attrs]
end
%>

3

Thanks so much.

This is the perfect solution.

On Jun 1, 5:47 am, nodoubtarockstar [email protected]

4

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:45 AM, lyntaff [email protected] wrote:

Thanks so much.

This is the perfect solution.

Note that the latest version of this is on github

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