The Event Calendar rails plugin (see: post & github) we created a few months back has been working great and, thanks to all the feedback, the bugs have pretty much been worked out. There was one annoying limitation, however:

The width couldn’t be set arbitrarily.

Well, no longer. I completely re-wrote the HTML and CSS styling that the helper generates. Events are now table columns which span the calendar days. The calendar grid is also a table, not a background image which needed to be created whenever setting a non-default width.

This means you can give the calendar any width, or don’t set it at all and let it resize to it’s containing element. Awesome!

I also took the opportunity to remove some old code, comments, and options that were hanging around from the plugin’s previous lives. In some ways there is now more flexibility to customize, in a few ways less. One consequence is that some of the options from before the rewrite no longer exist, so update with care.

Overall I’m very happy with how it turned out. Enjoy!