Building A Calendar Rails Gem

In this series, we'll walk through building an open source calendar gem from scratch and show you the entire process start to finish.

Start Series

12m

18 Lessons | 5h 25m | Intermediate

12m

Open Source Vlog - Where Do We Even Start?

Jun 24, 2015

I want to do open source every day. How do we even get started?

21m

Open Source Vlog - Housekeeping and Merging Pull Requests

Jun 25, 2015

Cleaning up our open source pull requests for simple_calendar

35m

Open Source Vlog - Setting Up Rspec

Jun 26, 2015

Here's how to setup Rspec for an open source project

19m

Open Source Vlog - Setting Up For The Future

Jun 27, 2015

Planning our future work on simple_calendar and what we're going to accomplish

16m

Open Source Vlog - Just Deleting Things

Jun 28, 2015

Deleting our old code to make room for a refactoring

14m

Open Source Vlog - Building A Calendar From Scratch

Jun 29, 2015

Spiking out code to figure out what we want so that we can do a great refactoring of simple_calendar

13m

Open Source Vlog - Refactoring Our Calendar

Jun 30, 2015

Refactoring our calendar to find out which pieces need to be interchangeable

Open Source Vlog - Filtering Events

Jul 01, 2015

Filtering events for our custom calendar

22m

Open Source Vlog - Finding a balance between Ruby and ERB

Jul 07, 2015

Taking the ERB code we wrote for simple_calendar and finding the right balance of Ruby and ERB for our gem

14m

Open Source Vlog - Simple And Clean RubyGem With Rails Engines

Jul 08, 2015

Rails Engines really make our code shine for simple_calendar

13m

Elegant Refactoring for Week and Month Calendars

Jul 11, 2015

Since we have a great design for simple_calendar, it makes creating new types super elegant and easy

11m

Open Source Vlog - Refactoring Events And Uploading Version 2.0

Jul 13, 2015

Refactoring events in simple_calendar and uploading version 2.0

12m

Open Source Vlog - Rails Generators

Jul 13, 2015

Today we're adding Rails generators as our final piece of the puzzle for Simple_Calendar 2.0

14m

Open Source Vlog - Sorting Calendar Events

Jul 18, 2015

We sort and filter calendar events for simple_calendar 2.0 in a much more friendly manner

26m

Open Source Vlog - Writing Rspec Tests

Jul 20, 2015

How do we go about writing robust tests with rspec for simple_calendar?

29m

Upgrading simple_calendar for Rails 5

Apr 04, 2016 Pro

We fix a bug in simple_calendar now that ActionController::Parameters are enforced with strong_params in Rails 5

19m

Recurring events with the ice_cube gem

Nov 28, 2016

See how to take rules from the ice_cube gem and add recurring events to any calendar

18m

Adding Exceptions To Recurring Events

Dec 05, 2016 Pro

See how to add exceptions to recurring events with the ice_cube gem

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