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simple calendar gem, including helpers to display objects inside cells
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 Dependencies

Development

>= 0
~> 0.9

Runtime

>= 3.0
 Project Readme

Calendrier

travis

Description

A simple helper for creating calendars. It includes a method to sort objects by date and an helpers to display events/meetings and other objects.

Synopsis

The gem provides calendrier helper to display calendars

# Simple example
<%= calendrier(:year => 2012, :month => 5, :day => 25, :start_on_monday => true, :display => :week, :title => "My calendar title") %>

# Complex example
<%= calendrier(:year => 2012, :month => 5, :day => 25, :start_on_monday => true, :display => :month) do |cell_begin_time, cell_end_time| %>
  <!-- this code is run for every cell of the calendar -->
  
  <!-- you have access to `cell_begin_time` and `cell_end_time` which let you create links or custom content -->
  <%= content_tag(:span, "Add meeting/event at #{l(cell_begin_time)} ?") %>
<% end %>

Now you have a calendar, but you may need to display events inside. If you have many events to display, the gem provides a method sort_events for the controller to create a hash of events. This avoid the calendar to check every events of the month to display every single cell. To use that method, you could pass as argument a mix of any objects which respond_to? one of the following method sets :

  • year, month, day
  • begin_time, end_time

This method will return an array like this :

events_by_date => {"2012"=>{"5"=>{"21"=>[#<Event>, #<Event>],
                                  "22"=>[#<Event>, #<Event>, #<Event>],
                                  "23"=>[#<Meeting>],
                                  "25"=>[#<Event>, #<Meeting>],
                                  "26"=>[#<Event>],
                                  "27"=>[#<Meeting>, #<Event>]}}}

In your controller :

class HomeController < ApplicationController
  include Calendrier::EventExtension

  def index
    arr = Meeting.all
    arr << Event.all
    @events_by_date = sort_events(arr)
  end
end

In your view :

<%= calendrier(:year => 2012, :month => 5, :day => 25, :start_on_monday => true, :display => :month) do |cell_begin_time, cell_end_time| %>
  <!-- this code is run for every cell of the calendar -->
  
  <% if count_sorted_events(@events_by_date, cell_begin_time, cell_end_time) > 0 %>
    <!-- this code is run only there is at least one event between cell begin and end -->

    <ul>
    <% yield_sorted_events(@events_by_date, cell_begin_time, cell_end_time) do |obj| %>
      <!-- you may handle event/meeting/... with the obj variable -->
      <li><%= obj.title %></li>
    <% end %>
    </ul>
  <% end %>

<% end %>

Custom builder

If you need a more complex calendar, you'll need to define a custom builder. To create such builder, add a file like the following.

# /lib/calendrier/calendrier_builder/custom_builder.rb
module Calendrier
  module CalendrierBuilder
    class CustomBuilder < Builder

      def render(header, content)
         # header is an array like this, having Date object of each columns
         # [Mon, 21 May 2012,
         #  Tue, 22 May 2012,
         #  Wed, 23 May 2012,
         #  Thu, 24 May 2012,
         #  Fri, 25 May 2012,
         #  Sat, 26 May 2012,
         #  Sun, 27 May 2012]
         # 
         # content is a double array like that, containing one Hash for each cell : {:time => Time.utc(<cell_begin_time>), :content => '<block content of this cell>' }
         # [ [ 7 Hash for one week ], [ 7 Hash for the next week ], ... ]
         #
         # [[{:time=>nil, :content=>nil}, # time could be nil on monthly display if week do not starts on monday/sunday (first day of week) 
         #   {:time=>2012-05-01 00:00:00 +0200, :content=>nil},
         #   {:time=>2012-05-02 00:00:00 +0200, :content=>nil},
         #   {:time=>2012-05-03 00:00:00 +0200, :content=>nil},
         #   {:time=>2012-05-04 00:00:00 +0200, :content=>nil},
         #   {:time=>2012-05-05 00:00:00 +0200, :content=>nil},
         #   {:time=>2012-05-06 00:00:00 +0200, :content=>nil}],
         #   ...
         # 
      end

    end
  end
end

And do not forget to add /lib to rails autoload_paths by adding the following line.

# config/application.rb
module MyNiceRailsApplication
  class Application < Rails::Application

    ...

    # Custom directories with classes and modules you want to be autoloadable.
    # config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/extras)
    config.autoload_paths += %W( #{config.root}/lib )

    ...

  end
end

Use your new builder by adding the builder option to the renderer.

<%= calendrier(:year => 2012, :month => 5, :day => 25, :start_on_monday => true, :display => :month, :builder => Calendrier::CalendrierBuilder::CustomBuilder) %>

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile :

gem 'calendrier', :git => "git://github.com/lafourmi/calendrier.git", :branch => "master"

And then execute :

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as :

$ gem install calendrier

License

Calendrier is Copyright (c) 2013 La Fourmi Immo.