Nice to see my code adapted as a plugin. Great work!

Hopefully should be very useful to rails developers. :)

It looks fabulous and thank you for spending the time to create this plugin, but is there any chance that you could provide a sample application?

We are new to Rails and just found your plugin. It looks awesome, but when trying to run the install nothing happens. It almost immediately goes back to a prompt, when we run the generate command it says “Couldn’t find ‘event_calendar’ generator. Any help?

@Andre
Interesting… so this isn’t working within your rails project?

script/plugin install git://github.com/elevation/event_calendar.git

Do you have git installed on your system? You could also try downloading the zip/tar file from github by clicking the ‘Download’ button, rename the extracted folder event_calendar, and put it in your vendor/plugins directory. You should then be able to run the event_calendar generator. Hope that helps.

It looks fabulous and thank you for spending the time to create this plugin, but is there any chance that you could provide a sample application?

ok, i do have a question this time. I have followed your defaults and created an event scaffold but how would i display the events and the calendar on the same page?

I’m trying to use the plugin and I’m following the example on github and there’s a problem when calling ‘event_strips_for_month’ because that’s not defined in Event model.

What should that method to? I will write it, but I need to know what is it supposed to do.

Thanks in advance

Diego

I have a new problem now:

NameError in CalendarController#index

undefined local variable or method `has_event_calendar’ for #

@Diego
Are you putting the ‘has_event_calendar’ method call in your event model, or do you have it in the controller? It should be in your model…

@month = params[:month].to_i
@year = params[:year].to_i

@shown_month = Date.civil(@year, @month)
start_d, end_d = Event.get_start_and_end_dates(@shown_month)
@events = Event.events_for_date_range(start_d, end_d)
@event_strips = Event.create_event_strips(start_d, end_d, @events)

this is my controller. I am getting a problem with Date.civil.
The error is

ArgumentError (invalid date):
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:727:in `civil’
app/controllers/events_controller.rb:54:in `monthly

Regards,
H

@hs

What are your @month and @year variables when you get that error? They should be integers like 8 and 2009. So: Date.civil(2009, 8) => Sat, 01 Aug 2009.

In my example, I default the params to Time.now.month and Time.now.year in the routes file:

map.calendar "/calendar/:year/:month", :controller => "calendar", :action => "index", :year => Time.now.year, :month => Time.now.month

I’m sorry to bug you with such a simple question but I am new to ruby and was wondering if you could help. I only want to show events that belong the the currently logged in user (current_user). How would I change this:

def event_calendar
calendar event_calendar_options do |event|
“#{h(event.name)}”
end
end

Thanks in advance for your help

I fixed it. I just changed:

In my calendar_controller:

@event_strips = Events.event_strips_for_month(@shown_month)

to

@event_strips = current_user.events.event_strips_for_month(@shown_month)

I’ve been playing with this for the past couple of days and I’m very pleased.

@Jeff Schuil: Have you thought about the design of the calendar grid itself? Currently it’s designed
to only use 85px or 120px as the cell width (to fill up the background with either 85_bg.gif or 120_bg.gif).

However, if you want a table width of 100%, no background image will work. Ideally you want to fill those blank spaces with plain css (borders).
Any thoughts?

I am getting save error as @hs

ArgumentError (invalid date)

I checked the year and month like you had suggested and:
My month is 0.
my year is 0.

If I set these variables in my controller. Then it works… but my next and prev. buttons do not.

It seems that my variables are not initialized by the route.

I’m hoping its something simple..(fingers crossed)

Ok so I discovered my problem!

In routes.

I had added the “map.calendar….” route below the default routes.

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

@Jermaine

While you can set the width to be whatever you want (by changing a setting and creating a new bg image), I agree it would be ideal if the calendar could resize dynamically. (ie with a browser window resize)

Right now each ‘event strip’ is a div placed within a single table cell that stretches across all the days of the week. The background image just gives the appearance of multiple cells. It could be re-written to produce HTML where each event strip is a table cell that spans the required number of day cells. The cells would then change width dynamically as the width of the table changed.

Also, instead of repeating bg images for the grid, perhaps it could use another table, that has position absolute, and is just there to give the cell/day borders.

It’s hard to describe in a comment, but those are my quick thoughts. This is on my list of things I’d like, so let me know how it goes and I’ll update the plugin if we get something working.

Hi,

I’m having a problem with the plugin. Whenever I make an event on a Friday later than 4PM(start_at 17:00:00) or so, it extends onto Saturday. I’m not sure how to resolve this, but I didn’t notice this before. I set my time zone to Pacific time in my environment.rb, but the server time is different. Could this be a problem?

Thanks.

I really like this calendar. Thank you. I see a couple of issues. When my end date is past 8:00 PM on *Friday*, the stripe spills over to Saturday. Oddly, this is only on Friday. I originally thought it was a timezone issue since I’m using US/Eastern. But having it happen on Friday is a real puzzle.

Also for October 2009, I get full row of empty cells at the bottom. I guess that is because the 31st falls on Saturday.

Thanks, Really like it!

@Jeff and @Tom

You’re correct that it was a timezone issue. The bug only came up when the event’s end date was close to the end of the week (Friday afternoon/nights depending on the time change.) Nice find. It should now be fixed.

I also removed the extra calendar row that was showing for the month of October. This one came up when the last day of the month was also the last day of the week (Saturday).

Also, feel free to create an issue on github for these types of bugs, instead of a blog comment. I’ll start creating them there if they are reported here…

Thanks, and I’m glad you like the plugin!

Not sure why but all events show up in calendar to day early.

i.e event datetime = 2009-10-05 00:00:00 shows up on the calendar on the 3rd.

also is there a way to set the end_at to the same as the start_at time.
I only need the date not the time.

Thanks

@Larry

Not sure why events would show up early for you either. Maybe this is another timezone problem? I see you opened a github issue, I’ll ask for more info there…

As for setting end_at to be the same as the start_at, you could easily do this in your event model.def end_at
start_at
end
I guess this means you only want to display single day events?

If you’re just trying to get rid of the event’s time, leaving only the date, then you should be able to replace start_at and end_at’s datetime data type with date. (ie in your event migration)

Or just don’t display the time information.

Another option, if you want a mix of dates and datetimes, is to add an ‘all day’ checkbox when creating an event.

Just wanted to follow up with the Friday night spill over timezone issue. The updated fixed it. Thanks.

This calendar is great. I’m trying to figure out how to turn the view into a popup, hopefully it won’t be too hard.

Hi,

Is there a way to change the calendar so the event title spans in the same cell, but moved down instead of having text cut off? Like “A really long title” would read as “A really lo” on the calendar.

Also, is there a way to change the colors based on different event types? If an event was type a, is there a way to set it to a different color then type b?

Thanks again for this wonderful plugin!