Acts As Noteable

 * Run the following command:

 script/plugin install http://acts-as-noteable.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/acts_as_noteable/

 * Create a new rails migration and add the following self.up and self.down methods

  def self.up
    create_table "notes", :force => true do |t|
      t.column "from", :string, :limit => 50, :default => ""
      t.column "body", :text, :default => ""
      t.column "created_at", :datetime, :null => false
      t.column "noteable_id", :integer, :default => 0, :null => false
      t.column "noteable_type", :string, :limit => 15, :default => "", :null => false
    end

  end

  def self.down
    drop_table :notes
  end

 * Make you ActiveRecord model act as noteable.

 class Model < ActiveRecord::Base
        acts_as_noteable
 end

 * Add a note to a model instance

 model = Model.new
 note = Comment.new
 note.body = 'Some comment'
 model.notes << note

 * Each note references a noteable object

 model = Model.find(1)
 model.notes.get(0).noteable == model

Vitals

Home	http://blog.djdossiers.com/articles/2007/05/09/another-new-rails-plugin-acts-as-noteable
Repository	http://acts-as-noteable.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/acts_as_noteable
License	OpenSource
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Rating	(5 votes)
Owner	jake varghese
Created	9 May 2007

Comments

• Sat

  17 May 2007

  Jake, Thanks for putting this out here. Could you please provide a code snippet on usage in forms - for both edit & create?

  BTW, I am a RoR noob

  Thanks Sat

• 

  jake

  21 May 2007

  the form is displayed along with the notes.
  

  In the view you want to display notes in put the following:

  <%= display_notes(object) %>

  This will create a div filled with the note entries for the object and a AJAX form to add new notes to the object as well as delete notes from the object. The add and delete methods are stored in the notes_controller.rb that gets copied over into your app/controllers directory.

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  nick treffiletti

  31 March 2008

  line 13 and 14 needed to be changed to:

        include Flvorful::Acts::Noteable::InstanceMethods
        extend Flvorful::Acts::Noteable::SingletonMethods
  

  in order for this to work for me.

• Ace Suares

  20 November 2008

  Doesnt work for me in Rails 2.0.2. If I click 'add note' nothing happens.

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