It would be great to add something like set_tranlation_method where somebody can provide method he's already using for msgs localization.

When I translate it I can't save the date to DB because "Enero" it's not "January" and Rails can't understand it.

How to solve this?

Look in this file 1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/date/format.rb

You'll need to implement your own date parsing method to grab the Spanish months it seems. I'd alias chain Date::parse and implement a catch to do something very similar to parse_us, but just create and reference a hash like Format::ES_ABBR_MONTHS

maybe it would be easier to have the calendar control put the value in both a hidden field (in English, which is actually saved to the database) and in a visible field (in Spanish or whatever other language, which is not saved to the db, or is saved as text, or whatever). This way you'd localize the UI without running into problems with backend components that expect/require English.

How it is possible to configure calendar to use ordering of weekdays starting from Monday?

:)

There are some kind of html bug in IE7 (not sp1), when "Now" button is translated to "Maintenance" (in french), Time dropdown and "Now", "OK" buttons are slide down ugly,

Ive had to to change placement of "OK" button to "Now", and put <br/> after, and then "NOw" ...

To make a Monday a first day in week change 3 lines in calendar_date_select.js:

Date.weekdays = $w("M T W T F S S");
className: (weekday==5) || (weekday==6) ? " weekend" : "" //clear the class
pre_days = this.beginning_date.getDay() - 1 // draw some days before the fact

Thanks Ryan.Warner.MN for comment

Another neat way:

    <%= calendar_date_select_includes nil,:locale=>'zh' %>

and add a new js file as public/javascripts/calendar_date_select/locale/zh.js

the content of this file looks like:

Date.weekdays = $w("一 二 三 四 五 六 七");
Date.months = $w("一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 十一 十二" );

Date.first_day_of_week = 1

_translations = {
  "OK": "确定",
  "Now": "现在",
  "Today": "今天"
}

Hope it's helpful:)

For portuguese you can do pt.js:

Date.weekdays = $w('D S T Q Q S S');
Date.months = $w('Janeiro Fevereiro Março Abril Maio Junho Julho Agosto Setembro Novembro Dezembro');

Date.first_day_of_week = 0

_translations = {
  "OK": "OK",
  "Now": "Agora",
  "Today": "Hoje"
}

Is it possible to change the value of the select button for hours ?

For french you can create fr.js:

Date.weekdays = $w('L Ma Me J V S D');
Date.months = $w('Janvier Février Mars Avril Mai Juin Juillet Août Septembre Octobre Novembre Décembre');

Date.first_day_of_week = 1;

_translations = {
  "OK": "OK",
  "Now": "Maintenant",
  "Today": "Aujourd'hui"
}

Herve: it should be, and at one point was, but seems to be broken again. I'll have to look at it.

I am using the calendar localization technique:

<%= calendar_date_select_includes nil,:locale=>'es' %>

which works pretty well when showing the view in the browser and selecting the dates. Everything is ok until the form sends the data and an error occurs...

analyzing the error I think it is that the form sends the date in the language that it is translating into to the database which the application does not accept... "date"=>"Abril 29, 2009 12:09 PM", .... it should be April with a p instead of Abril with a b.

Does anyone know what could be wrong?? thanks in advance...

Gustavo

I am using de globalite plugin for translations... could this be the problem? Thanks again

@gustavillo:

Before sending it to the database or manipulate the date in any way, try to cast it to a Date format, something like:

my_date = params[:calendar_date_select_fieldname].to_date // Shouts it like YYYY-MM-DD

I've been searching for help with it and this is what i'm doing to correctly manipulate the date. This plugin is very neat, with a very clear format in the view and still a usable date format in the code / database. I'm most happy to have found it :)

Here is a russian locale:

Date.weekdays = $w("Пн Вт Ср Чт Пт Сб Вс");
Date.months = $w("Январь Февраль Март Апрель Май Июнь Июль Август Сентябрь Октябрь Ноябрь Декабрь" );

Date.first_day_of_week = 1

_translations = {
  "OK": "OK",
  "Now": "Сейчас",
  "Today": "Сегодня"
}

Here is a Spanish locale (With clear):

Date.weekdays = $w("D L Ma Mi J V S");
Date.months = $w("Enero Febrero Marzo Abril Mayo Junio Julio Agosto Septiembre Octubre Noviembre Diciembre" );

Date.first_day_of_week = 0

_translations = {
  "OK": "Cancelar",
  "Now": "Ahora",
  "Clear": "Limpiar",
  "Today": "Hoy"
}

The portuguese had a mistake, here is the corrected version:

Date.weekdays = $w('D S T Q Q S S');
Date.months = $w('Janeiro Fevereiro Março Abril Maio Junho Julho Agosto Setembro Outubro Novembro Dezembro');

Date.first_day_of_week = 0

_translations = {
  "OK": "OK",
  "Now": "Agora",
  "Today": "Hoje"
}

For turkish:

_translations = {
  "OK": "Tamam",
  "Now": "Şimdi",
  "Today": "Bugün"
}

Date.weekdays = $w("Pt S Çar Per C Ct P");
Date.months = $w("Ocak Şubat Mart Nisan Mayıs Haziran Temmuz Ağustos Eylül Ekim Kasım Aralık" );

what language is this?

Hi,

calendar_date_select returns the date as a localized string, not a date-type. This is not only a problem if you want to work with the date later, but esp. if :to_date or the database-server does not recognize the formated string (or even worse: missinterpret the string. One example is are dd-mm-yyyy formats, used in manny european countries like the shipped :finnish format. This date format is interpreted as mm-dd-yyyy which leads to swapped month and day!)

I wrote a patch where you can mark fields for the use with calendar_date_select (or mor general: with localized date strings) as such in your active record model:

class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base
  calendar_date_attributes :date_field1, :date_field_n
end

Using this, the string is analysed using the localized format and stored as a date object. This is done by generating :your_date_field= methods calling the new class method CalendarDateSelect.parse_date(date_string) for the conversion. For the user of the model this is completely transparent. You can assign normal date objects or localized strings and always get proper date objects

You can get the code from the jonas-branch in tim's github repository: http://github.com/timcharper/calendar_date_select/tree/jonas

For Latvian:

Date.weekdays = $w("P O T C Pk S Sv");
Date.months = $w("Janvāris Februāris Marts Aprīlis Maijs Jūnijs Jūlijs Augusts Septembris Oktobris Novembris Decembris" );

Date.first_day_of_week = 1

_translations = {
  "OK": "OK",
  "Now": "Tagad",
  "Today": "Šodien"
}

Norwegian: Date.weekdays = $w("Ma Ti On To Fr L&oslash; S&oslash;");

Date.months = $w("Januar Februar Mars April Mai Juni July August September Oktober November Desember" ); Date.first_day_of_week = 1

translations = { "OK": "OK", "Now": "Nå", "Today": "I dag" }

Hmm, I'm writing a custom format_norwegian.js is there anyone who knows how to access the :minute_interval parameter from a custom format method?

I'm doing this: Date.prototype.toFormattedString = function(include_time) { var hour; var str = Date.padded2(this.getDate()) + "." + Date.padded2(this.getMonth() + 1) + "." + this.getFullYear(); if (include_time) { hour = this.getHours(); str += " " + this.getHours() + ":" + Date.padded2(Math.floor_to_interval(this.getMinutes(),30)); }

return str; };

I would like to swap the hardcoded 30 to the value from the :minute_interval parameter. I've tried this.options.get('minute_interval'), and this.prototype.options.get('minute_interval') but it does not work.

Any Ideas?

I18n code:

<script type="text/javascript">
  Date.weekdays = $w("<%= I18n.translate(:'date.abbr_day_names').join(' ') %>"); 
  Date.months = $w("<%=(I18n.translate(:'date.month_names')[1..-1].join(' '))%>");
</script>

Dirk, I find this a great idea. Extending it a bit... voilà my application_helper.rb:

  # Extending calendar_date_select_tag to support i18n
  # ==================================================
  def calendar_date_select_tag(*args)
    i18n_script = update_page_tag do |page|
      page.assign '_translations', {
        'OK'     => I18n.t('calendar_date_select.ok'),
        'Now'    => I18n.t('calendar_date_select.now'),
        'Today'  => I18n.t('calendar_date_select.today'),
        'Clear' => I18n.t('calendar_date_select.clear')
      }
      page.assign 'Date.weekdays', I18n.translate('date.abbr_day_names')
      page.assign 'Date.months', I18n.translate('date.month_names')[1..-1]
    end

    i18n_script + super(*args)
  end

For romanian you can create ro.js

Date.weekdays = $w('L M M J V S D');
Date.months = $w('Ianuarie Februarie Martie Aprilie Mai Iunie Iulie August Septembrie Octobrie Noiembrie Decembrie');

Date.first_day_of_week = 1;

_translations = {
  "OK": "OK",
  "Now": "Acum",
  "Today": "Astazi"
}

thx jonas for the i18n helper, works great

For dutch you can create nl.js

Date.weekdays = $w('Ma Di Wo Do Vr Za Zo');
Date.months = $w('Januari Februari Maart April Mei Juni Juli Augustus September Oktober November December');

Date.first_day_of_week = 1;

_translations = {
  "OK": "OK",
  "Now": "Nu",
  "Today": "Vandaag",
  "Clear": "Wissen"
}

Spain Spanish, with first day being monday instead of sunday as above.

// public/calendary_date_select/locales/es.js

Date.weekdays = $w("L M X J V S D");
Date.months = $w("Enero Febrero Marzo Abril Mayo Junio Julio Agosto Septiembre Octubre Noviembre Diciembre" );

Date.first_day_of_week = 1;

_translations = {
  "OK": "Cancelar",
  "Now": "Ahora",
  "Clear": "Limpiar",
  "Today": "Hoy"
}

My take on easily supporting i18n, on 3 steps:

1. Use I18n on the layout files

Add something similar to this on your layout file(s):

<%= calendar_date_select_includes "red", :locale => I18n.locale
  # first parameter can be "red", or "blue", or "silver", or nil
%>

2. Include the javascript locale files

Add as many "xx.js" (es.js, pt.js, fr.js...) you want on public/calendar_date_select/locales/xx.js

3. Set the format to :db

Include the following line on your config/environment.rb

  #config/environment.rb
  [...]
  Rails::Initializer.run do |config| {
  
  [...]
  
  }
  #This goes *outside* of the Rails::Initializer.run stuff
  CalendarDateSelect.format = :db

On step 1 we couple the locales with rails' I18n. That way different users will be able to see different date formats, provided that their I18n locale has been changed correctly when they log in.

On step 2 we include any locale files we want to support.

On step 3 we override the default format used, so we can send it to the rails backend without doing transformations. In my case this was the easiest and quickest solution; localized text fields were just being a pain - I just needed to localize the month names etc anyway.

Other people might prefer conserving the format they had and manually parsing it on the controller, this way:

  #app/controllers/my_object_with_dates_controller
  
  [...]
  def create
    attributes = params[:my_object_with_dates]
    attributes[:date1] = attributes[:date1].to_date if attributes[:date1]
    attributes[:date2] = attributes[:date2].to_date if attributes[:date2]
    [...]
    @my_object_with_dates = MyObjectWithDates.new(attributes)
    [...]
  end

Warning: I haven't tested that last part; I'm just repeating what someone said on the comments.

How do you change it to show 24 hour in the select box?