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Calendars are an essential part of many personal organization tools– they also predate computers by several thousand years, so you would think that implementing a shared web calendar would be relatively simple, given the tools at a modern programmer's disposal and the long precedent set by previous implementations. Oh, but you would be wrong. So, so wrong.

Recently, I was faced with a quandary. I needed to impart some of our ActiveRecord accessor methods with special functionality, but I also needed to maintain the default behavior for those fields. This was done to support a new input type which we added to the venerable CalendarDateSelect plugin which allows a user to enter a date, time, and meridian, all in separate fields.

As with any web company, we're constantly honing our development and deployment process. Recently, we moved to Lighthouse - we were already using Git, but the convergence of the two has finally crystallized our workflow into something that, we feel, works really nicely.