Does this require rails 2.x? I’m running trying to use it on a legacy site that is rails 1.2 and I get this error when trying to generate the calendar:

You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it! (NoMethodError)

@Jeff

To have the event name text wrap within the calendar day, instead of cutting it off, you’re going to have to make a change to the plugin.

In the plugin directory open:
event_calendar/lib/event_calendar/calendar_helper.rb
and look for the ‘event_content’ method. You’ll see the height of that div is being set. You can remove setting the height, but you’ll probably get some overlapping if you have multiple events on the same day, with long event names. Let me know if you get it working, and I’ll add it as an option to the plugin.

For the second question, just override the color method on your event model.

def color
# color logic based on event type
# or maybe associated calendar?, ie
# self.calendar.color
end


@Clark

I haven’t tried it on earlier versions of Rails, but based on your error I think it does require 2.x. You may only have to make a few changes to get it working on 1.x though…

@Jeff

Thanks. I upgraded the site to Rails 2.3 and it works well now.

Does this require some other gem? Your calls to Time.zone (e.g. Time.zone.now.year) don’t work for me as there is no such method on Time. I’ve confirmed this with IRB in Ruby 1.8.7

I have it working now by removing the call to zone but seems like I must have something wrong

@Clark

Time.zone was introduced in Rails 2.1. Try it out in the rails console, instead of just IRB.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/TimeZone.html#M001520

No good on Rails 2.3.2. See output from rails console:
Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.2)

*******************************************************************
* config.breakpoint_server has been deprecated and has no effect. *
*******************************************************************

Time.zone.now.year
NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.now
from (irb):1
Time.zone
=> nil
Time.now
=> Fri Oct 02 14:16:19 -0400 2009

Bingo. Thanks!

I am getting an argument error in my controller that says invalid date. Can you help with that?

Thanks

@Brandon

Sounds like the same problem @TS had in a comment above:

“Move the “map.calendar” route above the default routes.”

I am receiving the follwing NoMethodError in Calendar#index

“undefined method `name’ for Thu, 01 Oct 2009:Date”

Thanks in advance Jeff for being active on this post.

-Leo

@Leo

I think I need more info. Are you following the example in the README? It should be calling ‘name’ on an Event type object, not a Date. Look for where it’s calling event.name (in a helper or view) and see why you have a Date.

Thanks Jeff,

Found out I hadn’t erased the has_calendar plugin.

-Leo

Jeff,

I am trying to put the event calendar in a view other than the calendar view but I’m getting the following error:

NoMethodError in Store#calendar

Showing app/views/store/calendar.html.erb where line #3 raised:

You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.strftime
Extracted source (around line #3):

1: ‘top’ %>
2:
3:
4: ‘event’, :action => ‘new’ %>
5:

It seems like I am not able to pull the events from here. Any thoughts on how I could do this?

Thanks again

Nevermind.

What would be the easiest way to auto populate my calendar with three blank events each day?

Thanks in advance

Leo

Hi,

I’m running Rails 2.3.4 on Passenger and the app is failing to start since including the plugin and generated Event model:

Error message:
no such file to load — application.rb (MissingSourceFile)
Exception class:
PhusionPassenger::UnknownError

And I know that since a few releases ago, application.rb is called application_controller.rb; I can’t find any references to application.rb in the code. Any thoughts?

@Avishai

I can’t think of a reason why you’re getting that error. It seems to be ok in a fresh Rails 2.3.4 project. I just ran these steps and got a working calendar.

1. rails test_cal
2. cd test_cal
3. script/plugin install git://github.com/elevation/event_calendar.git
4. script/generate event_calendar
5. rake db:migrate
6. script/server

I get a calendar at http://localhost:3000/calendar. I also added an event in the db and it came up as well without an error.

Must be a conflict with your current application? Some people have had problems when they forgot to remove the original Calendar Helper plugin.

Hello,

I am testing the plugin and I was wondering if it is possible, in the :link_to_day_action, to have a restful route like new_user_event(current_user) if I have a calendar by user.

Thanks
Nicolas

@Nicolas

Override the day_link helper method. For example,
In helpers/calendar_helper.rb
def day_link(text, date, day_action)
link_to(text, new_user_event_path(current_user), :class => ‘day_link’)
end

I can’t push to github through my work proxy, but i found a bug – If you have more than 4 events and one of the later ones spans multiple weeks, it is displayed outside of (below) the event strip for that week.

to fix it in def event_row the first few lines should read
num_events = 0
event_counter = 0
content.each do |strip|
event_counter += 1
if !strip.blank?
num_events = event_counter
end
end

Cheers for the cool plugin.

@Anko

Good catch! I just updated the plugin with your fix. Thanks.

Hi Jeff,

I was trying to use this in a existing project with several event like models. Is it possible to alias the start_at and end_at columns without refacoring the plugin or my whole project? i.e. the my existing models use start_date and end_date.

I’m guessing that the answer is currently no, :( but here’s hoping. :)

Sean.

@Sean

You could try using the rails helper method ‘alias_attribute’ in your model.alias_attribute :start_at, :start_date
alias_attribute :end_at, :end_date

If nothing else, you could create start_at/end_at getters and setters to wrap your attributes.