2 Mar 2010, 6:46pm
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Rails Plugin Acts as Taggable on Steriods

You can download it here http://github.com/suitmymind/acts-as-taggable-on-steroids as well as read usage info (which is for the most part reprinted here).

./script/plugin install http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids
./script/generate acts_as_taggable_migration
rake db:migrate

Then in your model

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
    acts_as_taggable
 end

And usage is as follows

p = Post.find(:first)
p.tag_list # []
p.tag_list = "Funny, Silly"
p.save
p.tag_list # ["Funny", "Silly"]
p.tag_list.add("Great", "Awful")
p.tag_list.remove("Funny")

#to find...
Post.find_tagged_with('Funny, Silly')
Post.find_tagged_with('Funny, Silly', :match_all => true)

To use this in a form and let users enter a comma separated list of tag names…

form_for @post do |f|
f.text_field :tag_list

And to get a tag cloud

  #controller
  class PostController &lt; ApplicationController
    def tag_cloud
      @tags = Post.tag_counts
    end
  end

  # and in view...
  &lt;style&gt;
  .css1 { font-size: 1.0em; }
  .css2 { font-size: 1.2em; }
  .css3 { font-size: 1.4em; }
  .css4 { font-size: 1.6em; }
  &lt;/style&gt;

  &lt;% tag_cloud @tags, %w(css1 css2 css3 css4) do |tag, css_class| %&gt;
    &lt;%= link_to tag.name, { :action =&gt; :tag, :id =&gt; tag.name }, :class =&gt; css_class %&gt;
  &lt;% end %&gt;

*Note. If you have a controller “tags_controller.rb” and the auto generated (if you used ./script/generate) helper file “tags_helper.rb” you’ll need to make sure to copy the contents of the plugin lib module of the same name, into the helper file. You’ll get an error otherwise.

 
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