Plugins - Acts As Noteable - Agile Web Development

Plugins - Acts As Noteable

Allows for notes to be added to multiple and different models.

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Install

 * 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

Usage

 * 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

Credits

Jake V - This plugin is heavily influenced by Acts As Commentable (by Juixe).

http://blog.djdossiers.com/articles/2007/05/09/another-new-rails-plugin-acts-as-noteable

Owner: jake varghese

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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Comments

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nick treffiletti 31 Mar 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.

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.

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

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