# Tags or Full text tagging? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 14, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tags-or-full-text-tagging/177321 "2009-10-14T22:10:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![spitfire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@spitfire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spitfire)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tags-or-full-text-tagging/177321/1 "2009-10-14T22:10:35Z")
Hi everyone, I am developing a web apps, and I have to chose which method is better (for me): Tags or Full text tagging ? Usually when a user inserts a certain text content, he have to tags it, so other users can retrive the content. Inserting tags it a boring works for users, then I am locking for some system for auto-tagging the whole text contents (about 50 words). A simple methods is counting a word in all content entries, and if the word’s number is quite hight the word become a TAG. This methods is not bad, but IMHO it is slow. Do you have some idea, or does already exist some gem, to implement auto-tagging ? Thank you, Alessandro ---
**Author:** ![spitfire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@spitfire](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spitfire)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 10:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tags-or-full-text-tagging/177321/2 "2009-10-14T22:28:51Z")
On Oct 14, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Ale Ds wrote: > Inserting tags it a boring works for users, then I am locking for some > system for auto-tagging the whole text contents (about 50 words). > A simple methods is counting a word in all content entries, and if the > word’s number is quite hight the word become a TAG. > This methods is not bad, but IMHO it is slow. > Do you have some idea, or does already exist some gem, to implement > auto-tagging ? > Thank you, Why not just full text search the content and skip tags entirely? Maybe sphinx with the thinking-sphinx plugin…