Rails - Sep 2009 - Tagging recommendation - acts_as_taggable_on_steroids best?

hey all

What''s the most popular tagging plugin/gem these days?  Is it
acts_as_taggable_on_steroids?  Or is something else better?

I''d like to basically replicate flickr''s tagging as much as
possible, eg
allowing multi-word tags to be denoted by quotes or seperated by commas.

thanks
max
-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

> What''s the most popular tagging plugin/gem these days?  Is it
> acts_as_taggable_on_steroids?  Or is something else better?
Dunno.  I recently (3 months ago) had to pick and went with acts-as- 
taggable-on.  Seems to work just fine.  Lets you have different "sets"
of tags per model which I don''t use, but could be useful.

Setting/Accessing tags is easy... just set "tag_list" in your form as
a text field (assuming ''tag'' is the name of your set).

Don''t remember why I didn''t go with steroids...

> I''d like to basically replicate flickr''s tagging as much
as
> possible, eg
> allowing multi-word tags to be denoted by quotes or seperated by  
> commas.
>
> thanks
> max
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> >

Hi

I agree with phillip suggstion.

@max,
Don''t go with steroids as it has limitations for multiple taggings like
(
tags, skills, interests ) that were extended in acts_as_taggable_on

Sandip

-- 
Ruby on Rails Developer
http://funonrails.wordpress.com
www.joshsoftware.com

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.
To post to this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

>
>> Hi
>>
>> I agree with phillip suggstion.
>>
>> @max,
>> Don''t go with steroids as it has limitations for multiple
taggings
>> like
>> (
>> tags, skills, interests ) that were extended in acts_as_taggable_on
>>
>> Sandip
>>
>> --
>> Ruby on Rails Developer
>> http://funonrails.wordpress.com
>> www.joshsoftware.com
>
> Thanks for the suggestions guys.  We already have some tagging in  
> place,
> using machine tags to delineate different kinds of tagging, eg
> "note:name=Eb", so i think we would stick with that system. 
Maybe
> that''s how acts_as_taggable_on does it under the hood?  Anyway
i''ll
> look
> it that.
It doesn''t.  Here''s the migrations...  It uses the
''context'' field.

     create_table :tags do |t|
       t.column :name, :string
     end

     create_table :taggings do |t|
       t.column :tag_id, :integer
       t.column :taggable_id, :integer
       t.column :tagger_id, :integer
       t.column :tagger_type, :string

       # You should make sure that the column created is
       # long enough to store the required class names.
       t.column :taggable_type, :string, :limit => 32
       t.column :context, :string, :limit => 32

       t.column :created_at, :datetime
     end

oh, that''s cool, so it just uses an optional extra field then. 
That''s
very easy to integrate with what we have already (as is a_a_t_o_s). 
cheers
-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.