Hez's Bloggity Blog

Like all north west coasters us Vancouver Islanders are obsessed with coffee. Why just yesterday I learnt that Nanaimo is getting another Starbucks in Port Place Mall when it is rebuilt. It is still remarkably hard to find good coffee here though, for the longest time if I wanted good coffee I was buying it in Parksville at Cha Cha's, which roasts their own coffee, but even here it was hit and miss as to whether they had a good light roast.

Drumroaster to the rescue; my first experience with their coffe was at Mon Petit Choux and their espresso. After tracking down the roaster and purchasing a bag of 'El Salvador Pacamara' I can safely say this is some of the best coffee I've had since moving to the island.

Last night I was struck with an idea, so today I started the coding part and ended up with  a library to pull down (over IMAP) and parse Apple Mail.app formatted todos. Surrounding this library with a light weight Sinatra layer.

Git repo

My letter to Phillips, I encourage you to write one as well!

Dear Brewmaster,

I recently had the pleasure of trying the Hop Circle IPA and enjoyed it immensely, thank you for another fantastic beer. Now we come to the sad part of this communiqué, I have read that you are no longer going to produce the regular IPA as the Hop Circle IPA will be its replacement. The Phillips IPA, yes the one with the cute elephants on the label, is one of my favourite beers and as good as the Hop Circle IPA is it has big shoes to fill. I don't think the Hop Circle IPA measures up to the legendary IPA.
Please don't discontinue this tasty beer.

Long time enjoyer of your fine beers first time writer,

Hez

I recently ran across this helpful post on a Merb Datetime picker and it was good, that is until I wanted to use the JQuery Date picker. Well a bit of hacking later we have this:

<%= form_for @person %>
  <%= jquery_date_field :birth_date :label => 'Birthdate' %>
  <%= jquery_datetime_field :birth_date_and_time, :label => 'Birthdate and time' %>
<% end =%>

module Merb
  module GlobalHelpers
    # Jquery date picker
    module Merb::Helpers::Form
      def jquery_date_field(*args)
        if bound?(*args)
          current_form_context.jquery_bound_date_field(*args)
        else
          current_form_context.jquery_unbound_date_field(*args)
        end
      end

      def jquery_datetime_field(*args)
        if bound?(*args)
          current_form_context.jquery_bound_datetime_field(*args)
        else
          current_form_context.jquery_unbound_datetime_field(*args)
        end
      end

      module Builder
        class Base
          def jquery_bound_date_field(method, attrs = {})
            name = control_name(method)
            update_bound_controls(method, attrs, nil)
            jquery_unbound_date_field({:name => name}.merge(attrs))
          end

          def jquery_bound_datetime_field(method, attrs = {})
            name = control_name(method)
            update_bound_controls(method, attrs, nil)
            jquery_unbound_datetime_field({:name => name}.merge(attrs))
          end

          def jquery_unbound_date_field(attrs)
            if attrs[:name] =~ /\[(.*)\]/
              date = @obj.send($1)
            end
            date ||= attrs[:value] || Time.now

            date_attrs = attrs.merge(
                :class => 'jquery_date_picker',
                :value => date.to_date.to_s,
                :name => attrs[:name].to_s + '[date]',
                :id => attrs[:id] + '_input',
                :label => attrs[:label]
            )
            hidden_attrs = attrs.merge(
                :value => '',
                :label => nil
            )
            unbound_text_field( date_attrs ) +
              unbound_hidden_field( hidden_attrs.merge(:name => attrs[:name].to_s + '[year]', :id => attrs[:id] + '_year', :value => date.year) ) +
              unbound_hidden_field( hidden_attrs.merge(:name => attrs[:name].to_s + '[month]', :id => attrs[:id] + '_month', :value => date.month) ) +
              unbound_hidden_field( hidden_attrs.merge(:name => attrs[:name].to_s + '[day]', :id => attrs[:id] + '_day', :value => date.day) ) +
              "<script type=\"text/javascript\">
              $(function() {
                  $(\"##{date_attrs[:id]}\").datepicker({
                    dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd',
                    onSelect: function(dateText, inst) {
                      var myDatesSplit = $(\"##{attrs[:id]}_input\")[0].value.split( '-' );
                      $(\"##{attrs[:id]}_year\")[0].value = myDatesSplit[0];
                      $(\"##{attrs[:id]}_month\")[0].value = myDatesSplit[1];
                      $(\"##{attrs[:id]}_day\")[0].value = myDatesSplit[2];
                    }
                  });
                });
              </script>"
          end

          def jquery_unbound_datetime_field(attrs)
            if attrs[:name] =~ /\[(.*)\]/
              date = @obj.send($1)
            end
            date ||= attrs[:value] || Time.now

            hour_attrs = attrs.merge(
              :class => "date hour",
              :selected => date.hour.to_s,
              :name => attrs[:name].to_s + '[hour]',
              :id => attrs[:id] + '_hour',
              :collection => (0..24).map{|i|[i, i.to_s]},
              :label => nil
            )

            minute_attrs = attrs.merge(
              :class => "date minutes",
              :selected => date.min.to_s,
              :name => attrs[:name].to_s + '[min]',
              :id => attrs[:id] + '_min',
              :collection => %w[00 05 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55].map{|i|[i.to_i, i]},
              :value_method => :first,
              :text_method => :last,
              :label => nil
            )

            jquery_unbound_date_field(attrs) + ' ' + unbound_select(hour_attrs) + ':' + unbound_select(minute_attrs)
          end
        end
      end
    end
    # end Jquery date picker
  end
end