I added the DynamicCalendarHelper plugin to my current Rails project today, only to discover that I couldn't call it the way that I expected from a view. Eventually I found the answer at Typo Sidebar - CalendarHelper which had instructions for turning the plugin into a global view helper. I was expecting a somewhat more seamless experience.

So either

  • This doesn't work as intuitively as much of the rest of what I've seen in Rails

  • This particular plugin could use some work

  • I don't understand what's going on here


My money is on the third alternative at the moment.