This plugin is based on a blog post by [Grzegorz Brzezinka]:(http://blog.brzezinka.eu/webmaster-tips/ruby/ruby-on-rails-formtastic-jquery-ui-datepicker)
The concept is simple. It adds a new form input to formtastic that can be used like this:
<% semantic_form_for @master do |f| -%>
<% f.inputs do -%>
<%= f.input :name %>
<%= f.input :born, :as => :date_picker %>
<% end -%>
<%= f.buttons %>
<% end -%>It adds a class onto a normal text input called 'ui-date-picker', and for the parent <li> it adds a class called 'date_picker.' Assuming you have already referenced jquery, and jqueryui in your layout, you can then hook into this with a call from jquery:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('input.ui-date-picker').datepicker();
});Put this in your application.js or some other js file.
In the Gemfile add this gem after ActiveAdmin (gem 'active_admin') to make sure it loads after and overrides/extends ActiveAdmin appropriately.
The ActiveAdmin extensions can be found in lib/active_admin in this project.
We currently support both Rails 2 and Rails 3, under Ruby 1.8.7-ish (and 1.9.2-ish). That means, at a bare minimum, you'll want to set-up two rvm gemsets to run your specs against. So, fork the project on Github, clone it, make some gemsets, run bundler, run your specs and then finally set-up an .rvmrc file that specifies Rails 3 as your default gemset and cd back into that directory to load in the .rvmrc file. Something like this:
cd ~/code/formtastic
rvm gemset create formtastic-rails3
rvm gemset use formtastic-rails3
gem install bundler
bundle install
rake spec
rm Gemfile.lock
rvm gemset create formtastic-rails2
rvm gemset use formtastic-rails2
gem install bundler
RAILS_2=true bundle install
RAILS_2=true rake spec
touch .rvmrc
echo "rvm gemset use formtastic-rails-3" > .rvmrc
cd ~/code/formtastic
Also, most of the testing environment has been copied straight of formtastic, so if something doesn't make sense here, it probably did where I grabbed it from.
- Grzegorz Brzezinka
- Nik Petersen
- Alan Harper