Hi,
I'm looking to develop a dynamic event calendar for a rails application. I found some nifty little embeddable calendars in jQuery and Moo Tools that use Json feeds but they seem to conflict with some features that I have already developed using prototype.
Is there a rails plugin that I can work with or an embeddable prototype solution that I can feed with xml or json?
If anybody has any advice or tips please let me know.
Thanks in advance.
Try calendar_helper Rails plugin. I'm using this in my events-based
app right now and love it! It adds appropriate classes to your table
cells and allows you to add your own classes as well, if you'd rather.
Plus: No javascript necessary. 
http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/calendar_helper
In my app, I display the event type, the comedian name with a link to edit, ticket price and showtime:
controller:
@year = params[:year].blank? ? Date.today.year : params[:year].to_i @month = params[:month].blank? ? Date.today.month : params [:month].to_i @events = Event.all
view:
<%= calendar({:year => @year, :month => @month}) do |d| cell_text = "#{d.mday}<br />" cell_attrs = {:class => 'day'} @events.each do |e| if e.showtime.mday == d.mday cell_text << link_to ( e.comedian.full_name, :action => 'edit', :id => e ) << "<br />" cell_text << e.event_type << "<br />" cell_text << e.ticket_price << "<br />" cell_text << e.showtime << "<br />" cell_attrs[:class] = 'event_date' end end [cell_text, cell_attrs] end %>
Thanks so much.
This is the perfect solution.
Note that the latest version of this is on github