Rails - Jan 2006 - Calendar date picker for use with rails.

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 Francis 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 Francis wrote:
> Alan Francis 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 Olbrich <kevin.olbrich@duke.edu>
wrote:
> Alan Francis wrote:
> > Alan Francis 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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Going to agree with Sky on this one. Just recently added this calendar
to a couple of apps of mine and its worked great!

On 1/20/06, Sky Yin <sky.yin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I prefer this one: http://www.dynarch.com/projects/calendar/
> It''s open sourced and with beautiful theme support.
>
> On 1/20/06, Kevin Olbrich <kevin.olbrich@duke.edu> wrote:
> > Alan Francis wrote:
> > > Alan Francis 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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On 20.1.2006, at 15.29, Nick Stuart 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.

//jarkko

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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

On 1/20/06, Nick Stuart <nicholas.stuart@gmail.com>
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!
>
> On 1/20/06, Sky Yin <sky.yin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I prefer this one: http://www.dynarch.com/projects/calendar/
> > It''s open sourced and with beautiful theme support.
> >
> > On 1/20/06, Kevin Olbrich <kevin.olbrich@duke.edu> wrote:
> > > Alan Francis wrote:
> > > > Alan Francis 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''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,

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

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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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 Olbrich 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 Paland <bpaland@gmail.com> 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'' %>
<!--[form:t1]-->
<p><label for="t1_start_date">Start
date</label><br/>
<%= dynarch_date_select ''t1'',
''start_date'' %></p>

<p><label
for="t1_description">Description</label><br/>
<%= text_field ''t1'', ''description'' 
%></p>
<!--[eoform:t1]-->

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

<html>
<head>
  <title>T1s: <%= controller.action_name %></title>
  <%= stylesheet_link_tag ''scaffold'' %>
  <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>
  <%= stylesheet_auto_link_tags %>
  <%= javascript_auto_include_tags %>
</head>
<body>

<p style="color: green"><%= flash[:notice] %></p>

<%= @content_for_layout %>

</body>
</html>

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:)

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