Rails - Feb 2006 - acts_as_taggable scoped in another class/table?

I''m hoping someone more familiar with DHH''s acts_as_taggable
plugin
can help me out here...

Tags being all the rage, and the subject of a good recipe in the  
forthcoming Pragmatic Rails Recipes book, I decided to give them a  
try. However, from what I can tell, they''re kind of application-wide  
by design. I know the social thing is hot, but I need my tags to be  
specific to another table - specific to each user, rather than shared  
between all.

For example, say my User model has all my accounts, and my Categories  
model has:

   acts_as_list :scope => :user

which works like I want, I can sort my Categories within Users. But  
then, wanting to do the same thing with tags applied to Users, I try:

   acts_as_taggable :scope => :website

But this doesn''t seem to work. I can do something like this to find  
Tags applied to my Category:

   Tag.find_by_name(tag_name).tagged

Yet how do I ask for all Tags used by a single User?

On Feb 13, 2006, at 3:41 PM, Raymond Brigleb wrote:
> Yet how do I ask for all Tags used by a single User?
I was just wondering the same thing, glad this got brought up. I''d  
imagine that the taggings or tags db table would have to be altered  
to hold the attribution, and the code would have to be changed to  
record it. What''s the practice for modifying plugins like this?

Toby