The calendar_for helper method generates standard calendars, in the form of HTML tables. Each day of the calendars being output is a TD element; the content template for each cell is the block being passed to the helper; partials are the easiest to deal with. Each yielded template is given access to a Time object for midnight on the day it’s rendering.
All cells are created with a valid Time object. i.e. if you’re making a calendar for Oct. 2008, the first day is a Wednesday. Any cells that come before that in the table (e.g. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday) will use the end of September to render the template. If you need those cells to be empty, they are classed in the HTML and you should just knock them out with styles.
Usage
The most basic implementation of the helper makes a calendar for all of the current month.
<%= calendar_for { |day| content_tag(:h3, day.mday } %>
This will generate a table with its first row being a TR element for each weekday’s full name (e.g. Sunday, Monday…Saturday), and then rows for each week of the month, where each cell contains an H3 element with the day of the month (1,2…31).
Options
The first argument is the date to be considered. It can be a Time or Date, a Chronic-parsable string, or a hash ({ :year
Other options include: :week_start is the day of the week the calendars should start on, default is Sunday.
accepts 0 – 6 (Sunday – Saturday), or a String or Symbol of the weekday name ("Sunday", :monday)
:timeframe is the scope of the calendars being produces. Default is :month
:day creates a single cell table for the supplied date :week :month :quarter creates three tables for the months of the quarter the date is in (e.g if supplied date is Feb 2, shows Jan. Feb, Mar) :year goes back to January of the year for the supplied date and shows all months Integer starts with the month of the supplied date and shows the next i-1 months
:weekday_headers false suppressed the row of TRs containing the weekday names
Array (length = 7) replaces the default weekday names (always starts with Sunday)
:html_classes replaces the default html class names for special cells (today, days outside the month being shown that appear on the calendar)
:today :out_of_timeframe
Examples
Example 1
<%= calendar_for( { :year => 2010, :month => 5 },
:week_start => :monday,
:timeframe => :quarter,
:weekday_headers => ['S','M','T','W','T','F','S']
:html_classes => { :out_of_timeframe => 'blank' }
) { |day| render :partial => 'day', :locals => { :day => day } } %>
# _day.html.erb
<%= content_tag(:h5, link_to(day.mday, { :controller => 'calendar', :action => 'show', :year => day.year, :month =>
day.month, :day => day.mday })
Example 2
<%= calendar_for(Time.now, :weekday_start => :monday, :timeframe => :week) { render :partial => 'day', :locals => {
:day => day } }
# _day.html.erb
<%= link_to(day.mday) %>
<ol><%= render :partial => 'event', :collection => @events.select { |e| e.starts_at.midnight == day.midnight } %></ol>
# _event.html.erb
<%= content_tag(:li, event.summary) %>
Sample output
# for <%= calendar_for({ :year => 2008, :month => 10 }, :week_start => :monday, :timeframe => :week) { |day|
content_tag(:p, day.mday) } %>
<table
class="calendar"><tr><th>Monday</th><th>Tuesday</th><th>Wednesday</th><th>Thursday</th><th>Friday</th><th>Saturday</th
><th>Sunday</th></tr><tr><td class="null"><p>29</p></td><td
class="today"><p>30</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr>
</table>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2008 Chris Kalafarski. See LICENSE for details.