DatepickerEngine

DatepickerEngine is a collection of helpers for creating datepicker boxes in your views.

Installation

1. Create your Rails application, set up your databases, grab the Engines plugin and the DatepickerEngine, and install them.
2. Install the DatepickerEngine into your vendor/plugins directory
3. Modify your Engines.start call in config/environment.rb

    Engines.start :datepicker # or :datepicker_engine
   

4. Edit your application.rb file so it looks something like the following:

    class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
      include DatepickerEngine
    end
   

5. Edit your application_helper.rb file:

    module ApplicationHelper
      include DatepickerEngine
    end
   

6. The DatepickerEngine provides a default stylesheet and a small javascript helper file, so you’ll probably want to include the former and almost certainly the latter in your application’s layout. Add the following lines:

                        <%= engine_stylesheet "datepicker_engine", "calendar-blue" %>
                        <%= engine_javascript "datepicker_engine", "calendar", "lang/calendar-en", "calendar-setup" %>
   

Usage

You can create a datepicker popup box like this:

<%= datepicker_popup ‘person’, ‘birthday’,

        { :class => 'date',
          :field_title => 'Birthday',
          :button_title => 'Show calendar' },
        { :firstDay => 1,
          :range => [1920, 1990],
          :step => 1,
          :showOthers => true,
          :cache => true }
  %>

More examples in the API docs for the application helper

License

Copyright © 2006 Gitte Wange

The MIT License

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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Owner: Gitte Wange

Repository: http://svn.mamatux.dk/rails-engines/datepicker_engine

License: Rails' (MIT)

Category: View Extensions