CalendarDateSelect is semi-light-weight (about ~20k of javascript/css) and easy to use (but gets even lighter with bundle-fu)! It takes full advantage of the prototype.js library, resulting in less code, but maintaining a great deal of functionality.

Some of it’s capabilities:

* can pick a date, or a date-time, or a date with an optional time, as a popup selector or an embedded calendar!
* speaks several different formats
* is easy to localize
* is extensible. Calendar Date Select doesn’t do everything under the sun (which is a good thing), but you can build on top of it.

Installation / Usage

1. Install the calendar_date_select gem

sudo gem install calendar_date_select

2. Add a gem dependency to your rails project (in environment.rb)

config.gem “calendar_date_select”

3. Then, restart/start your rails project. All necessary files will be copied to your public folder.
4. Now include this at the top of your layout: (you’ll also need to include prototype, if you haven’t already!)

      < %= calendar_date_select_includes "red" # or "blue", or "silver", or nil for the default! %>
      # (if you want more control, you can get a list of stylesheets / javascripts via calendar_date_select_javascripts and calendar_date_select_stylesheets)

Demo: http://electronicholas.com/calendar

Download: http://download.github.com/timcharper-calendar_date_select-09bff5193cbffcac9a3ee84e47b898bb1dd37170.zip

Source: http://code.google.com/p/calendardateselect/

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