I did something similar to this and acts_as_taggable was a pretty lean solution. What makes you not want to use it?
-James > On Mar 22, 2016, at 2:25 PM, Johnny Stewart <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > > I'm working on an app which has an image upload facility for users, I > want users to be able to create 'albums' for their pictures. > The way I'm thinking about implementing this is to have a hash in the > user model for each user which they can add categories to and will then > be available as a dropdown for any images they are uploading. This will > allow them to attach the category to the image. I can then filter the > images by category to show the albums. Does this seem like a sensible > way to do this? I don't want to use the acts_as_taggable_on gem as it > seems like overkill for what I'm doing (although maybe not - open to > suggestion..). > > So, my question is, does my solution seem like the way to go? > > Is there a better solution? > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/7a162151d20ced52f3a283376971a9de%40ruby-forum.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/198CAB61-0731-4FFA-B13B-51CEF5DD93D9%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.