Also a brief howto wiki for the plugin...
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ActsAsTaggablePluginHowto
On 3/23/06, David Andrew Thompson <dandrew.thompson@gmail.com>
wrote:> Great Tom. Thanks.
>
> To chime-in on gems vs. plugins, I have to say that I''m a big fan
of
> plugins. My concern regarding gems is the difficulty with installing
> these with hosting providers. Plugins allow for the developer to add
> functionality to their application without support requests to the
> hosting provider.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Here''s a good article on the acts_as_taggable plugin vs. gem that
I found.
>
> http://www.notio.com/2006/02/rails_acts_as_t.html
>
> Dave
>
> On 3/23/06, Tom Mornini <tmornini@infomania.com> wrote:
> > Hey, there''s a plugin written by DHH that seems a little
> > more capable and is likely to replace the gem over time.
> >
> > script/plugin discover
> > script/plugin install acts_as_taggable
> >
> > Best documentation is in the Pragmatic Rails Recipes book.
> >
> > --
> > -- Tom Mornini
> >
> > On Mar 23, 2006, at 8:24 PM, David Andrew Thompson wrote:
> >
> > > Exactly what I''m looking for James. Thanks!
> > >
> > > On 3/23/06, James Ludlow <jamesludlow@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> On 3/23/06, David Andrew Thompson
<dandrew.thompson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>> I''ve been contemplating the utilization of
"tags" functionality for
> > >>> categorizing records in my application. For example, a
record can
> > >>> have
> > >>> any tag associated with them: volunteer, donor,
phone_caller, etc.
> > >>> (Much like delicious)
> > >>>
> > >>> Has anyone already laid out a good architecture for
implementing
> > >>> this
> > >>> on the DB, or other medium? I''m sure I can
custom build
> > >>> something, but
> > >>> why re-invent the wheel. ;)
> > >>
> > >> Like this?
> > >>
> > >> http://taggable.rubyforge.org/
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> > >
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