# Tag clouds

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tag-clouds/159411>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 4, 2009, 11:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tag-clouds/159411 "2009-02-04T11:26:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![vivekmajhi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@vivekmajhi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vivekmajhi)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 11:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tag-clouds/159411/1 "2009-02-04T11:26:19Z")

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Hi,  
Is there anyway to import TAGCLOUDS in a Ruby on Rails application  
without using PLUGINS? If it is so, please help me!

Thanks in Advance,  
cheers.

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**Author:** ![vivekmajhi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@vivekmajhi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vivekmajhi)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 2:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tag-clouds/159411/2 "2009-02-04T14:32:28Z")

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Is there any way? Of course. You can write the code yourself to  
handle the recording of tags, the storage and assignment of tags, the  
counting and ranking of tags, and the styling to create a tag cloud,  
along with all the associated db migrations, helper methods, etc.

Or you could use the code of someone who has already done this  
themselves and install the plugin.

If you can’t install the plugin for security reasons or something, you  
could copy and paste the code from the plug in into your application  
code.

Why would you not want to use the plugin?

—A

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**Author:** ![vivekmajhi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@vivekmajhi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vivekmajhi)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tag-clouds/159411/3 "2009-02-04T14:39:14Z")

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Oh Thank you Mr.Andrew ! As you said correctly, I am not able to install  
the plugin for some security reasons. I am at the very beginning stage  
of using rails and so only I asked that question.Thank you very much for  
you Guidance.

Cheers!

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**Author:** ![vivekmajhi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@vivekmajhi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vivekmajhi)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 3:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tag-clouds/159411/4 "2009-02-04T15:37:32Z")

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Moreover, Even if I want to install gems, it is showing lot of errors.  
Can you explain me the step by step procedure to install gems which  
will be helpful for importing tag clouds in my application?  
Thanks in advance  
cheers1

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**Author:** ![vivekmajhi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@vivekmajhi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vivekmajhi)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 4:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tag-clouds/159411/5 "2009-02-05T04:04:56Z")

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I guess in order to help you, we’d need to know what you have tried so  
far. For me, it was as simple as going to the GitHub repository and  
following the instructions they give when clicking on the little ruby.

What have you tried?