If you're really enterprising, you could swap in acts_as_taggable_on for acts_as_taggable_on_steroids in the CE plugins folder, and integrate it into the app (with passing tests, of course). I'd happily accept that change into core.
Thanks, Bruno On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:20 AM, shiftshane <[email protected]> wrote: > Edward, > > Acts_as_taggable_on supports "context" tagging, which sounds very much > like you're after. Perhaps you want to dissect that and figure out how > they have it working. Also, i really don't think it would be too hard > to just drop that plugin in over AATOS. It should work out of the box > with just a couple column additions to one of the tables. > > http://github.com/mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on > > Shane > > On Jul 21, 11:37 pm, Jim Ruther Nill <[email protected]> wrote: > > hmm. I think you can override the tag_list getter and setter methods so > > that you can add tags like > > > > microsoft - company, campus - location > > > > here's a pseudo code for the setter and getter > > > > def tag_list=(tag_names) > > temp = [] > > tn = tag_names.split(',') > > tn.each do |t| > > main_tag = t.split(' - ').last > > description_tag = (t.split(' - ') - [main_tag]).join > > # collect all main_tag and write_attribute them to tag_list > > end > > end > > > > def tag_list > > #collect the tags and [main_tag, description_tag].join > > end > > > > hope this can help you in some way. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Edward Funger <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Sorry, just came back to this post and realized it wasn't very clear. > > > What I would like to do is have each tag have a descriptor that > > > specifies what aspect of the object it is tagging. For example, if I > > > have a model Interview, I would like to be able to tag the interview > > > multiple times with tags (in the form (name,descriptor)) ("microsoft", > > > "company"), ("campus", "location"). The problem now is that I can only > > > tag said model as ("microsoft") and ("campus"). I would like to do > > > this because I don't want to hardcode fields into my model, so that > > > the end-user can add or remove fields through an interface on the > > > front-end. I'm not sure if it is worth mucking up the > > > acts_as_taggable_on_steroids plugin though. Does anyone have any > > > ideas? > > > > > On Jul 21, 10:41 am, Edward Funger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I would like each tag to also have a type(name it something different > > > > than type) so that the tags are searchable and addable by their name > > > > +type. > > > > > > On Jul 20, 8:42 pm, Jim Ruther Nill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > it's fine if you want to add another field. and with desert, you > can > > > just > > > > > copy the tag.rb file to your app's model directory and modify it > there > > > for > > > > > whatever functionality you want to add. may i ask what you want to > add > > > to > > > > > the plugin? > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Edward Funger <[email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > I am trying to figure out a way that I can continue using the > > > > > > acts_as_taggable_on_steroids plugin but I want to add another > column > > > > > > to the tag.rb model. 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