# Unable to install properly / use acts\_as\_taggable\_on -- please help

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**Created:** [April 24, 2009, 3:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unable-to-install-properly-use-acts-as-taggable-on-please-help/166339 "2009-04-24T03:42:42Z")\
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The gem (now installed as a plugin) puts into the log the default text  
that it was loaded successfully, but for ‘acts\_as\_tagger’ and  
‘acts\_as\_taggable\_on’ – I get NoMethodError for these. Also, rake  
spec:plugins fails with two errors.

1. 

‘Taggable should be able to get tag counts on an association’ FAILED  
expected: 2,  
got: 1 (using ==)  
./vendor/plugins/acts-as-taggable-on/spec/acts\_as\_taggable\_on/  
taggable\_spec.rb:88:

1. 

‘Taggable should be able to use named scopes to chain tag finds’  
FAILED  
expected: [#\<TaggableModel id: 35, name: “Bob”, type: nil\>],  
got: [] (using ==)  
./vendor/plugins/acts-as-taggable-on/spec/acts\_as\_taggable\_on/  
taggable\_spec.rb:117:

I’ve run the migration as indicated, and restarted the server, all in  
various permutations, and I still get errors.

specifically I am trying to use it as such

class User  
acts\_as\_tagger  
end

class Group  
acts\_as\_taggable\_on :interest  
end

My app only works with those lines commented out. Any help is greatly  
appreciated. Thanks in advance.