Calendar date picker for use with rails

Rails
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Howdy folks,

As I was putting together a rough form for a rails app, I got to
thinking how much smoother (in my siytuation) a little calendar widget
would be than the default date picker selects.

Does anyone know if such a thing exists ?

I suspect it would have to be somewhat designed with rails in mind to
populate the right kind of post params for convenient use at the
controller end. Without that, I guess a little controller magic to
unpack whatever format a generic javascript calendar widget generated,
wouldn’t be too much trouble.

Might make a nice alternative to date_select.

Thoughts, suggestions(*), howls of derisive laughter welcomed.

Alan
(*)aside from the “great idea, you should get right on that”
variety…my javascript chops are nonexistent :-S

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Alan F. wrote:

Does anyone know if such a thing exists ?

http://projects.exactlyoneturtle.com/date_picker/#

Doh! Amazing what a difference searching for “date picker rails” made
over searching for “calendar widget rails”.

Alan

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Alan F. wrote:

Alan F. wrote:

Does anyone know if such a thing exists ?

http://projects.exactlyoneturtle.com/date_picker/#

Doh! Amazing what a difference searching for “date picker rails” made
over searching for “calendar widget rails”.

Alan

This one is pretty good too… http://datebox.inimit.com/

It also lets you do things like “+1 week”

_Kevin

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I prefer this one: http://www.dynarch.com/projects/calendar/
It’s open sourced and with beautiful theme support.

On 1/20/06, Kevin O. [email protected] wrote:

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Going to agree with Sky on this one. Just recently added this calendar
to a couple of apps of mine and its worked great!

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On 20.1.2006, at 15.29, Nick S. wrote:

Going to agree with Sky on this one. Just recently added this calendar
to a couple of apps of mine and its worked great!

The one Kevin mentioned uses the Dynarch calendar. In addition, it
supports some cool freehand input like “tomorrow” etc.

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I can ditto this one… I’m using the Dynarch calendar in one of my
apps and it works extremely well.

-Will

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Peter,

try the Bundled Resource Plugin:

http://blog.inquirylabs.com/index.php?s=Bundled+Resource&submit=Search

There is a helper for the Dynarch calendar.

Beate

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Hi Beate,

Thanks very much for that. As soon as I get it to work I’ll post some
sample code.

Peter

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I’ve had a look at the Dynarch calendar and it looks really nice. I’m
new to rails and I’m wondering how I can convert a scaffold form tied
to a table with with the normal default rails date selector to one with
the Dynarch Calendar so that it updates the datefield in the database?

Many thanks in advance

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Peter Aszkenasy wrote:

Hi Beate,

Thanks very much for that. As soon as I get it to work I’ll post some
sample code.

Peter

I think the Dynarch Calendar picker has been incorporated into the
Datebox Engine (see http://rails-engines.org)

_Kevin

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Kevin O. wrote:

Peter Aszkenasy wrote:

Hi Beate,

Thanks very much for that. As soon as I get it to work I’ll post some
sample code.

Peter

I think the Dynarch Calendar picker has been incorporated into the
Datebox Engine (see http://rails-engines.org)

_Kevin

Kevin

I’ve had a look at the rails engine version, it uses the following as
its engine,

http://datebox.inimit.com/

Also, its not clear from the documentation how you tie it to a database
table field.

Peter

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Can this calendar be used with JSF?

— Beate P. [email protected] wrote:

Peter,

try the Bundled Resource Plugin:

http://blog.inquirylabs.com/index.php?s=Bundled+Resource&submit=Search

There is a helper for the Dynarch calendar.

Beate

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Hi Beate,

Many thanks for that. With rails 1.1.2 and Bundled Resource v 0.9 I was
able to get the following working. Here’s the partial form for my test
app t1

<% require_bundle :dynarch_calendar %>
<%= error_messages_for ‘t1’ %>

Start date
<%= dynarch_date_select 't1', 'start_date' %>

Description
<%= text_field 't1', 'description' %>

And here’s the associated layout file with all the necessary includes

T1s: <%= controller.action_name %> <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'scaffold' %> <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %> <%= stylesheet_auto_link_tags %> <%= javascript_auto_include_tags %>

<%= flash[:notice] %>

<%= @content_for_layout %>

I’ve openned another thread to see if anyone else is using the
dynarch_date_select to see if I’ve got the above code right.

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/67304

Anyway, my code seems to work:)