# Which taggable library do people use?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-taggable-library-do-people-use/126622>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 20, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-taggable-library-do-people-use/126622 "2008-01-20T15:54:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-taggable-library-do-people-use/126622/1 "2008-01-20T15:54:03Z")

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I’d like to add taggability to a model in the site I’m working on, and I  
wanted to get an idea of what people are using. I keep seeing that  
acts\_as\_taggable is deprecated, so I tried the  
acts\_as\_taggable\_on\_steroids.  
I also tried be\_taggable.

In any case, I figured I’d see what people use.

thanks.  
-corey

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**Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-taggable-library-do-people-use/126622/2 "2008-01-21T17:02:27Z")

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On 1/20/08, Corey H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I’d like to add taggability to a model in the site I’m working on, and I  
> wanted to get an idea of what people are using.

For my current Rails 2.x project I’ve ended up going with the the  
tagging capabilities inherent in Evan W.'s excellent  
has\_many\_polymorphs plugin for ActiveRecord.

Very happy so far. See :

> **[growing up your acts\_as\_taggable](https://blog.evanweaver.com/2007/01/13/growing-up-your-acts_as_taggable/)**
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> The acts\_as\_taggable plugin, although built in to Rails, is basically deprecated. And the gem version is old and requires a separate join table for every taggable model, which is silly.update Pleas…

[http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/doc/fauna/has\_many\_polymorphs/files/README.html](http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/doc/fauna/has_many_polymorphs/files/README.html)

…for more detail.

Cheers,

## Martin

Martin W. - freelance web developer (Rails, Java, Perl, PHP) based in  
the UK  
[http://martinwood.org](http://martinwood.org)

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**Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-taggable-library-do-people-use/126622/3 "2008-01-21T17:28:29Z")

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thanks! I’ll check that out.

On 1/21/08, Martin W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> UK  
> [http://martinwood.org](http://martinwood.org)
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