NOTICE: =================== Unfortunately, I do not have time to manage this plugin anymore. I have moved on to use simple_form. If anyone is interested in managing this plugin, and keeping up with the merge requests and issues, please let me know, and I will direct people to your version. FormtasticDatepickerInputs ========================== 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 input into 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 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 this with a call from jquery: $(document).ready(function(){ $('input.ui-date-picker').datepicker(); }); Development Environment ======================= 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: <pre> $ 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 </pre> 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. Contributors ============ * Grzegorz Brzezinka * Nik Petersen * Alan Harper