Best Rails Tagging Plugin/Gem [closed]

Question

what plugin or gem do you recommened for tagging? There are many of them, acts_as_taggable, acts_as_taggable_on_steroids, acts_as_taggable_on,...

What do you say?

Answer 1

Here's a good list of tagging plugins ordered by ranking.

Answer 2

Just went through this.

1. Started with is_taggable because I liked having something simple
2. Then I need to find tagged items like Website.tagged_with("sports") which it didn't support so I switched to acts_as_taggable_on, the most popular one on github
3. It worked well for a while, but it's tagged_with function had bugs. When searching for a non-existent tag it returned all results instead of zero. So I finally switched to acts_as_taggable_on_steroids and all is good now. Whew!

Summary: my current vote it for acts_as_taggable_on_steroids

Answer 3

Updating this question because it's pretty high in the google results. After looking around at the links in these answers, we settled on acts-as-taggable-on https://github.com/mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on

Works with Rails 3 (though as I type this, has an issue with 3.0.10). Easy enough to use. Active development. Support for tag context which I'm sure we're going to want soon.

Answer 4

My favourites is acts_as_taggable_on_steroids, it's more recent and updated version of the classic acts_as_taggable.