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. 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. If you do not wish or need to support multi-tenancy, the migration for add_tenant_to_taggings is optional and can be discarded safely. You can also add and remove tags in format of String.
Features
- Add and remove tags by direct assignment
- Add and remove tags in format of String
- You can also filter the results by passing the method a limit
- Acts As Taggable On uses scopes to create an association for tags
- Mix and match to filter down your results
- You can find objects of the same type based on similar tags on certain contexts