What's the deal with acts_as_taggable?
Posted by theBlatherskite Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:58:00 GMT
So acts_as_taggable seems, in theory, like quite a useful bit of code… but trying to get it working caused me more headaches than one would hope for a glorified convenience-method.
The main information source seems to be dema’s blog posting, but after painstakingly stepping through the instructions there I’ve come to the conclusion that the syntax listed no longer functions. Although it was posted more than a year ago, it still seems the most recent (decent) reference that I could find (note that he also has a previous article available here).
After struggling for quite a while, I’ve come to the conclusion that acts_as_taggable has been more or less ignored as a plugin (is this true? dema’s comment here states that responsibility for maintaining the plugin has drifted elsewhere), but the gem version appears to be under active development.