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“Does anyone know of the best current Date-Time picker for Javascript?”
*Tim Harper’s Calendar Date Select was recommended for its simplicity and rails integration.
Simply install the gem and add it as a project dependency:
sudo gem install calendar_date_select
config.gem "calendar_date_select"
And insert into your Rails code:
<%= calendar_date_select_includes "red" %>
And voila, you have an intuitive time and date selector:

Check out the live Demo.
*Yahoo’s Javascript toolkit was determined to work well for people in need of a date and time selection GUI.
The only problem with it is that there’s no jQuery support and Tim has said that he won’t do it.
August 10, 2009 at 6:28 pm
I used this for a while, and it is good. But I have since moved on to the datepicker built into JQuery UI, ’cause it’s pretty (and no gem dependancy). :)
August 11, 2009 at 5:36 am