My users provide some description ( TEXT field) and I would like to generate tags automatically from them? are there any plugins available?. Any directions would be appreciated. cheers -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Looks like acts_as_taggable_on is what you need. The example included on that page should make it pretty easy to do. http://github.com/mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on/tree/master On Aug 27, 8:21 am, Rails List <rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> My users provide some description ( TEXT field) and I would like to > generate tags automatically from them? > > are there any plugins available?. Any directions would be appreciated. > > cheers > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Kyle F wrote:> Looks like acts_as_taggable_on is what you need. The example included > on that page should make it pretty easy to do. > > http://github.com/mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on/tree/master > > > On Aug 27, 8:21�am, Rails List <rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>Thanks Kyle, unfortunately there is no provision wherein it generates tags automatically ( I still have to assign it explicitly - which I don''t want to) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
2009/8/28 Rails List <rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>:> > Kyle F wrote: >> Looks like acts_as_taggable_on is what you need. The example included >> on that page should make it pretty easy to do. >> >> http://github.com/mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on/tree/master >> >> >> On Aug 27, 8:21�am, Rails List <rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> > > Thanks Kyle, unfortunately there is no provision wherein it generates > tags automatically ( I still have to assign it explicitly - which I > don''t want to)You''re trying to pick out keywords out of the description to use as tags? You could use a language parser to pick out sentence components - Subject, Direct Object - and use those as tags. http://deveiate.org/code/linkparser/ g.