In your Rails 3 tagging your models since 2011.
For instance, in a social network, a user might have tags that are called skills, interests, sports, and more. There is no real way to differentiate between tags and so an implementation of this type is not possible with acts as taggable on steroids.
Enter Acts as Taggable On. Rather than tying functionality to a specific keyword (namely "tags"), acts as taggable on allows you to specify an arbitrary number of tag "contexts" that can be used locally or in combination in the same way steroids was used.
Acts As Taggable On is now useable in Rails 3.0, thanks to the excellent work of Szymon Nowak and Jelle Vandebeeck.
To use it, add it to your Gemfile:
gem 'acts-as-taggable-on'
rails generate acts_as_taggable_on:migrationrake db:migrate
Acts As Taggable On uses RSpec for its test coverage. Inside the plugin directory, you can run the specs for RoR 3.0.0 with:
rake spec
If you already have RSpec on your application, the specs will run while using:
rake spec:plugins
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
# Alias for acts_as_taggable_on :tags:
acts_as_taggable
acts_as_taggable_on :skills, :interests
end
@user = User.new(:name => "Bobby")
@user.tag_list = "awesome, slick, hefty" # this should be familiar
@user.skill_list = "joking, clowning, boxing" # but you can do it for any context!
@user.skill_list # => ["joking","clowning","boxing"] as TagList
@user.save
@user.tags # => [<Tag name:"awesome">,<Tag name:"slick">,<Tag name:"hefty">]
@user.skills # => [<Tag name:"joking">,<Tag name:"clowning">,<Tag name:"boxing">]
@frankie = User.create(:name => "Frankie", :skill_list => "joking, flying, eating")
User.skill_counts # => [<Tag name="joking" count=2>,<Tag name="clowning" count=1>...]
@frankie.skill_counts
Acts As Taggable On utilizes named_scope to create an association for tags.
This way you can mix and match to filter down your results, and it also improves
compatibility with the will_paginate gem:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
acts_as_taggable_on :tags
named_scope :by_join_date, :order => "created_at DESC"
end
User.tagged_with("awesome").by_date
User.tagged_with("awesome").by_date.paginate(:page => params[:page], :per_page => 20)
# Find a user with matching all tags, not just one
User.tagged_with(["awesome", "cool"], :match_all => :true)
# Find a user with any of the tags:
User.tagged_with(["awesome", "cool"], :any => true)
You can find objects of the same type based on similar tags on certain contexts. Also, objects will be returned in descending order based on the total number of matched tags.
@bobby = User.find_by_name("Bobby")
@bobby.skill_list # => ["jogging", "diving"]
@frankie = User.find_by_name("Frankie")
@frankie.skill_list # => ["hacking"]
@tom = User.find_by_name("Tom")
@tom.skill_list # => ["hacking", "jogging", "diving"]
@tom.find_related_skills # => [<User name="Bobby">,<User name="Frankie">]
@bobby.find_related_skills # => [<User name="Tom">]
@frankie.find_related_skills # => [<User name="Tom">]
In addition to the generated tag contexts in the definition, it is also possible to allow for dynamic tag contexts (this could be user generated tag contexts!)
@user = User.new(:name => "Bobby")
@user.set_tag_list_on(:customs, "same, as, tag, list")
@user.tag_list_on(:customs) # => ["same","as","tag","list"]
@user.save
@user.tags_on(:customs) # => [<Tag name='same'>,...]
@user.tag_counts_on(:customs)
User.tagged_with("same", :on => :customs) # => [@user]
Tags can have owners:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
acts_as_tagger
end
class Photo < ActiveRecord::Base
acts_as_taggable_on :locations
end
@some_user.tag(@some_photo, :with => "paris, normandy", :on => :locations)
@some_user.owned_taggings
@some_user.owned_tags
@some_photo.locations_from(@some_user)
To construct tag clouds, the frequency of each tag needs to be calculated.
Because we specified acts_as_taggable_on on the User class, we can
get a calculation of all the tag counts by using User.tag_counts_on(:customs). But what if we wanted a tag count for
an single user's posts? To achieve this we call tag_counts on the association:
User.find(:first).posts.tag_counts_on(:tags)
A helper is included to assist with generating tag clouds.
Here is an example that generates a tag cloud.
Helper:
module PostsHelper
include ActsAsTaggableOn::TagsHelper
end
Controller:
class PostController < ApplicationController
def tag_cloud
@tags = Post.tag_counts_on(:tags)
end
end
View:
<% tag_cloud(@tags, %w(css1 css2 css3 css4)) do |tag, css_class| %>
<%= link_to tag.name, { :action => :tag, :id => tag.name }, :class => css_class %>
<% end %>
CSS:
.css1 { font-size: 1.0em; }
.css2 { font-size: 1.2em; }
.css3 { font-size: 1.4em; }
.css4 { font-size: 1.6em; }
This plugin was originally based on Acts as Taggable on Steroids by Jonathan Viney. It has evolved substantially since that point, but all credit goes to him for the initial tagging functionality that so many people have used.
- Anthony Cook (acook) - Fork Maintainer
- TomEric (i76) - A Former Maintainer
- Michael Bleigh - Original Author
- Szymon Nowak - Rails 3.0 compatibility
- Jelle Vandebeeck - Rails 3.0 compatibility
- Brendan Lim - Related Objects
- Pradeep Elankumaran - Taggers
- Sinclair Bain - Patch King
- tristanzdunn - Related objects of other classes
- azabaj - Fixed migrate down
- Peter Cooper - named_scope fix
- slainer68 - STI fix
- harrylove - migration instructions and fix-ups
- lawrencepit - cached tag work
- sobrinho - fixed tag_cloud helper
- Empact - compatibility, refactoring, rails extraction, more
- kuldarkrabbi - inheritable attributes deprecation fix
- revelation - STI fix
- brady8 - force lowercase and parameterize tags
Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Michael Bleigh (http://mbleigh.com/) and Intridea Inc. (http://intridea.com/), released under the MIT license
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