Rails - Nov 2007 - ANN: Spraypaint - yet another tagging library for rails

I''ve just open-sourced and released spraypaint, a tagging plugin
I''ve
developed.  I can''t claim it''s better than all other tagging
plugins
out there (and there are certainly quite a few) but I think it''s
different enough that other people might find it useful.  Here are
some of those differences:

a) Most tagging queries wrap around the standard finder methods.  So
the following are all valid:

# Finds with added conditions, limit and offsets
Pub.find :all, :tagged_with_all => [''cosy'', ''wood
fire'', ''real
ale''], :conditions => {:city_id => ''london''},
:limit => 20, :offset =>
10

# Calculations based on tags
Pub.sum :turnover, :tagged_with_any => ''football''

# Finds through associations
City.find_by_name(''London'').pubs.find(:all, :tagged_with_any
=>
[''overpriced''])

b) While there is a proper tagging model hidden away, all manipulation
is done through strings:

p = Pub.create :tags => [''dark'', ''old
men'', ''fights'']
p.tags << ''wetherspoons''
p.save

p.tag_string = "dark, old men, fights"
p.save

c) There''s some rudimentary support for machine tagging:

Film.create :tags => [''film:director:coens'']
Film.find :all, :tagged_with_any => {:namespace => :film}
Film.find :all, :tagged_with_any => {:namespace => :film, :predicate
=> :director}

If any of this sounds interesting, take a look at:

http://svn.tomafro.net/plugins/spraypaint/trunk

I''d be interested in all comments and feedback

Tom


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Following some advice, I''ve moved the code to
http://svn.tomafro.net/rails/plugins/spraypaint so it works nicely
with script/plugin install.

I''ve also backported the code to 1.2.6 as apparently not everyone
develops their apps on the bleeding edge ;)

I''d still really appreciate any more comments, criticism or even abuse
you''d all care to send my way.

Tom

On 11/23/07, tomafro <tom-FF2hOUnQ1ZmsTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I''ve just open-sourced and released spraypaint, a tagging plugin
I''ve
> developed.  I can''t claim it''s better than all other
tagging plugins
> out there (and there are certainly quite a few) but I think it''s
> different enough that other people might find it useful.  Here are
> some of those differences:
>
> a) Most tagging queries wrap around the standard finder methods.  So
> the following are all valid:
>
> # Finds with added conditions, limit and offsets
> Pub.find :all, :tagged_with_all => [''cosy'',
''wood fire'', ''real
> ale''], :conditions => {:city_id =>
''london''}, :limit => 20, :offset =>
> 10
>
> # Calculations based on tags
> Pub.sum :turnover, :tagged_with_any => ''football''
>
> # Finds through associations
> City.find_by_name(''London'').pubs.find(:all,
:tagged_with_any =>
> [''overpriced''])
>
> b) While there is a proper tagging model hidden away, all manipulation
> is done through strings:
>
> p = Pub.create :tags => [''dark'', ''old
men'', ''fights'']
> p.tags << ''wetherspoons''
> p.save
>
> p.tag_string = "dark, old men, fights"
> p.save
>
> c) There''s some rudimentary support for machine tagging:
>
> Film.create :tags => [''film:director:coens'']
> Film.find :all, :tagged_with_any => {:namespace => :film}
> Film.find :all, :tagged_with_any => {:namespace => :film, :predicate
> => :director}
>
> If any of this sounds interesting, take a look at:
>
> http://svn.tomafro.net/plugins/spraypaint/trunk
>
> I''d be interested in all comments and feedback
>
> Tom
>
>
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I''ve added it to RailsLodge 
http://www.railslodge.com/plugins/831-spraypaint

Tom Ward wrote:
> Following some advice, I''ve moved the code to
> http://svn.tomafro.net/rails/plugins/spraypaint so it works nicely
> with script/plugin install.
> 
> I''ve also backported the code to 1.2.6 as apparently not everyone
> develops their apps on the bleeding edge ;)
> 
> I''d still really appreciate any more comments, criticism or even
abuse
> you''d all care to send my way.
> 
> Tom
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