Re: Scheduling Plugin

Matt Jones
2010-12-23T20:24:15Z

On Dec 23, 12:00 pm,
"ppgeng...-vA8bmGSXo1KakBO8gow8eQ@public.gmane.org"
<ppgeng...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Dec 22, 11:12 am, Mike Porter
<li...-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > We are looking for a calendar scheduling solution that supports
> > recurring events.
>
> I haven''t used it, but when I was filling idle time a little bit
ago
> the one I found that I liked the best
was:https://github.com/seejohnrun/ice_cube.
> Its development seems a lot more active than the one you have, which
> is generally pretty important to me when searching out gems, since
> things in Rails move so fast.
>
> > Some specific requirements are that we need to be able to setup
> > recurring events, then modify one of those events on a certain day by
> > deleting it for example.
>
> > Basically, we want the back end for a Google Calender type
> > functionality.
>
> Again, haven''t used it but from the perusing it claims to do this
> (from their github landing page):
>
>   With ice_cube, you can specify (in order of precendence)
>
>     Exception Dates - To specifically exclude from a schedule
>     Recurrence Dates - To specifically include in a schedule
>     Exception Rules - Rules on how to exclude recurring dates in a
> schedule
>     Recurrence Rules - Rules on how to include recurring dates in a
> schedule
>

I looked at IceCube a while back, and the biggest issue I had from an
implementation perspective was that the DSL for building recurrence
rules was awesome *but* there wasn''t a clear path to build it from
user input. calendar_fu is not quite as syntactically nice, but it
seems more "user-ready", if you will.

BTW, if you haven''t checked out FullCalendar (http://arshaw.com/
fullcalendar/) you should - it''s a pretty slick jQuery plugin to
handle the *other* half of the calendar system.

--Matt Jones

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