Spraypaint is a plugin for rails adding tagging capabilities to model classes, written by Tom Ward (tom@popdog.net). It’s by no means the only rails tagging plugin, so if it doesn’t meet your needs, why not check on of these out:

• acts_as_taggable_on_steroids[http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids]
• acts_as_taggable[http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/acts_as_taggable]
• acts_as_taggable_redux[http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/acts_as_taggable_redux]

The main goals of Spraypaint are:

• To make manipulation of tags as easy as possible - just use arrays and strings
• To allow searches by tag alongside standard rails finder options
• To provide easy access to interesting tagging data, including tag clouds, tags related to other tags, models related by tag and more
• To create efficient SQL where possible
• To provide very basic support for machine tags

Create database tables

  script/generate spraypaint_migration
  rake db:migrate

Documentation

For more info, check the rdoc, either in the source files or by running rake spraypaint:rdoc

Feel free to send any comments, bug reports, criticisms and abuse to tom@popdog.net

Copyright © 2007 Tom Ward, released under the MIT license