# Enhancing page model with acts\_as\_taggable **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [January 4, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/enhancing-page-model-with-acts-as-taggable/125025 "2008-01-04T17:25:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jomz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jomz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jomz)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/enhancing-page-model-with-acts-as-taggable/125025/1 "2008-01-04T17:25:41Z")
Hi list, I was wondering if anybody is using acts\_as\_taggable(\_on\_steroids) on their pages yet? ---
**Author:** ![jomz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jomz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jomz)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 1:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/enhancing-page-model-with-acts-as-taggable/125025/2 "2008-01-07T13:07:39Z")
I had acts\_as\_taggable running, a long time ago, but the main problem is that Radiant uses the “Tag” namespace for the, well Tags (the radius ones, not organizatonal ones). I got around this by hacking it a bit a renaming the tags to Metatags. Worked fine. More recently I have been using has\_many\_polymorphs, which seems to be a much better replacement for tagging that the various newer versions fo acts\_as\_taggable. It comes with a nice tagging generator and I spun that out into a small extension, which unfortunately broke with 0.6.4. I have not looked into it, as this was just a small personal project and I had people breathing down my neck for other more important things… If you would like to play with the code, let me know, I will package it up. keith ---
**Author:** ![jomz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jomz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jomz)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/enhancing-page-model-with-acts-as-taggable/125025/3 "2008-01-07T18:08:19Z")
I was halfway through with adding acts\_as\_taggable\_on\_steroids, I think the tag handling in radiant has changed since your attempt, 'cause i had no problem with the namespace. I hadn’t read about has\_many\_polymorphs yet, seems like a good solution too. I’d sure be glad to try and fix your extension Benny > I had acts\_as\_taggable running, a long time ago, but the main problem > is that Radiant uses the “Tag” namespace for the, well Tags (the > radius ones, not organizatonal ones). I got around this by hacking it > a bit a renaming the tags to Metatags. Worked fine. > More recently I have been using has\_many\_polymorphs, which seems to > be a much better replacement for tagging that the various newer > versions fo acts\_as\_taggable. It comes with a nice tagging generator > and I spun that out into a small extension, which unfortunately broke > with 0.6.4. I have not looked into it, as this was just a small > personal project and I had people breathing down my neck for other > more important things… > If you would like to play with the code, let me know, I will package > it up. > keith > On Jan 4, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Benny D. wrote: > > > Hi list, > > I was wondering if anybody is using acts\_as\_taggable(\_on\_steroids) > > on their > > pages yet? > > > > * * * > > > > Radiant mailing list > > Post: Radi…[http://groups.google.com/groups/unlock?msg=d3c43bdfaf8247c6&\_done=/group/radiantcms/browse\_frm/thread/110e8a3c68fb3fa6%3F](http://groups.google.com/groups/unlock?msg=d3c43bdfaf8247c6&_done=/group/radiantcms/browse_frm/thread/110e8a3c68fb3fa6%3F) > > @lists.radiantcms.org ---
**Author:** ![jomz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jomz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jomz)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 4:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/enhancing-page-model-with-acts-as-taggable/125025/4 "2008-01-08T04:09:19Z")
“Benny D.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > Hi list, > > I was wondering if anybody is using acts\_as\_taggable(\_on\_steroids) on their > pages yet? No, but I’ve started something similar (code is still very alpha) that parses a page part as a YAML hash, indexes this and provides tags for accessing it. The basic idea is to allow any arbitrary structured data to be applied to a page in a simple way. So, for example, you’d create a new page part called “meta” which would contain something like: ``` tags: ruby,coding,web_dev ``` or even something more complex like the data for an hcalendar: ``` id: apachecon_europe_2008 summary: ApacheCon Europe 2008 start_date: April 7 end_date: April 11 dtstart: 20080407 dtend: 20080411 location: Movenpick Hotel, Amsterdam url: http://eu.apachecon.com description: > ApacheCon is a week of open source goodness straight from the source of the Apache Software Foundation, featuring 15 intense training classes over two days followed by three days of more than 50 sessions by the creators of open source software such as the Apache webserver, Tomcat, Lucene, Wicket and more. ``` I can then access this as a tag like this: ``` ``` I’m now working on a controller that would act as an index for this meta data: ``` http://example.com/{key}/{value} ^ ^ | returns all pages with this key:value returns a list of all values for the key ``` Anyway, I’m still just playing around with this and I’m not convinced yet if it’s a good idea, but it could certainly be used to (1) do tagging and (2) enhance the page model without any coding. – J Aaron F. [jadetower.com](http://jadetower.com) [US] +1 724-964-4515 馮傑仁 [cubiclemuses.com](http://cubiclemuses.com) [HK] +852 8123-7905