Bootstrap Datepicker for Rails

Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more.

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

Bootstrap Datepicker is a plugin for Bootstrap designed by Stefan Petre. It provides a stylish date picker for Bootstrap.

http://www.eyecon.ro/bootstrap-datepicker/

bootstrap-datepicker-rails project integrates Datepicker with Rails 3 assets pipeline.

http://github.com/Nerian/bootstrap-datepicker-rails

It also integrates the improvements made by Andrew Rowls.

https://github.com/eternicode/bootstrap-datepicker

Rails > 3.1

Include bootstrap-datepicker-rails in Gemfile;

gem 'bootstrap-datepicker-rails'

or you can install from latest build;

gem 'bootstrap-datepicker-rails', :require => 'bootstrap-datepicker-rails',
                              :git => 'git://github.com/Nerian/bootstrap-datepicker-rails.git'

and run bundle install.

Configuration

Add this line to app/assets/stylesheets/application.css

 *= require bootstrap-datepicker

Add this line to app/assets/javascripts/application.js

//= require bootstrap-datepicker

You can fine tune the included files to suit your needs.

//= require bootstrap-datepicker/core
//= require bootstrap-datepicker/locales/bootstrap-datepicker.es
//= require bootstrap-datepicker/locales/bootstrap-datepicker.fr

Using bootstrap-datepicker-rails

Just call datepicker() with any selector.

$('.datepicker').datepicker()

You can also use unobtrusive javascript like this:

$(document).on("focus", "[data-behaviour~='datepicker']", function(e){
    $(this).datepicker({"format": "yyyy-mm-dd", "weekStart": 1, "autoclose": true});
});

<input type="text" data-behaviour='datepicker' >

Here is a live example:

http://jsfiddle.net/2Gg5k/43/

There are a lot of options you can pass to datepicker(). They are documented at https://github.com/eternicode/bootstrap-datepicker

Questions? Bugs?

Use Github Issues.

License

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