I decided that I wanted tags with counts on my custom rails blog
(shameless plug: http://rorek.org/blog/ ), so I perhaps ill-advisedly
commenced editing the acts_as_taggable plugin in place. I ran up
against a bug: the :default for the taggings_count field apparently
wasn’t working, and was set to nil for new tags. Continuing on my
spate of perhaps ill-advised behavior, I decided to try to work around
the problem like so (with extra p’s to display the weird behavior):
added to vendor/plugins/acts_as_taggable/tag.rb:
def before_save
# XXX I should really find out why :default doesn’t work
if taggings_count_before_type_cast.nil?
p taggings_count
p taggings_count_before_type_cast
n = Tagging.count(:conditions => [‘tag_id = ?’, self.id])
taggings_count = n
p n
p self.id
p taggings_count
p taggings_count_before_type_cast
end
end
Tag.find(:all, :conditions => ‘taggings_count is NULL’).each{|t|t.save}
1
nil
1
42
1
nil
=> [#<Tag:0x99c09c4 @taggings=[#<Tagging:0x99b9bd8
@attributes={“tag_id”=>“42”, “id”=>“202”, “taggable_type”=>“Post”,
“taggable_id”=>“18”}>], @errors=#<ActiveRecord::Errors:0x99bf2cc
@base=#<Tag:0x99c09c4 …>, @errors={}>,
@attributes={“name”=>“software”, “taggings_count”=>nil, “id”=>“42”},
@new_record_before_save=nil>]
I tried a number of incarnations of this method, calling it validate,
and after_save with a save at the end. nothing worked.
Happily, my string of ill-advised behavior ended and I updated to the
newest edge rails, 5982. This fixed the original problem, and now new
tags are created with the correct taggings_count. However, it seems to
me that this should work to fix the data, and yet it doesn’t. Why’s
that?
Dag