Tagging recommendation - acts_as_taggable_on_steroids best?

Rails
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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

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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…

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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

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“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
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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

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Sandip R. wrote:

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.

thanks!
max