Best Rails Tagging Plugin/Gem

Question

Hello,

what plugin or gem do you recommened for tagging? There are many of them, acts_as_taggable, acts_as_taggable_on_steroids, acts_as_taggable_on,...

What do you say?

Answer 1

My favourites is acts_as_taggable_on_steroids, it's more recent and updated version of the classic acts_as_taggable.

Answer 2

Here's a good list of tagging plugins ordered by ranking.

Answer 3

I just had to figure this out this morning, and chose acts_as_taggable_redux. It has built in support for tag clouds, and all the other features I needed. The most compelling point was that the last update was in October 2009, while the others look like they haven't been touched in a while.

Answer 4

Just went through this.

1. Started with is_taggable because I liked having something simple
2. Then I need to find tagged items like Website.tagged_with("sports") which it didn't support so I switched to acts_as_taggable_on, the most popular one on github
3. It worked well for a while, but it's tagged_with function had bugs. When searching for a non-existent tag it returned all results instead of zero. So I finally switched to acts_as_taggable_on_steroids and all is good now. Whew!

Summary: my current vote it for acts_as_taggable_on_steroids