{"id":78,"date":"2007-12-20T22:34:58","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/installing-the-acts_as_taggable-rails-plugin\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T22:34:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T17:04:58","slug":"installing-the-acts_as_taggable-rails-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/installing-the-acts_as_taggable-rails-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing the acts_as_taggable Rails Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"

You don’t have to write a lot of code to get tagging support in your Ruby on Rails application – you just have to install a plugin. This is how you install the ‘acts_as_taggable’ plugin…<\/p>\n

First go to the Ruby on Rails application folder and open a terminal at that location. Now run this commad…<\/p>\n

ruby script\/plugin install acts_as_taggable<\/code><\/p>\n

If your have previously installed some plugins from the same repository, that command will work. If not, you will get this error…<\/p>\n

Plugin not found: [\"acts_as_taggable\"]<\/code><\/p>\n

This is because the ‘acts_as_taggable’ plugin is not in any of the repositories you check. To see the all the repositories on your check list, run this command…<\/p>\n

ruby script\/plugin list \t#Shows the list of all the repositories you check.<\/code><\/p>\n

To add new repositories to your list, you have to run this command…<\/p>\n

ruby script\/plugin discover<\/code><\/p>\n

This will shows a list of repositories – just press ‘y’ to select all the repositories you need. I added every repository in the list.<\/p>\n

Now run the first command again…<\/p>\n

ruby script\/plugin install acts_as_taggable<\/code><\/p>\n

Installing the Gem<\/h2>\n

The above instructions are for installing the acts_as_taggable plugin – not the acts_as_taggable gem. To install the gem run the command…<\/p>\n

gem install acts_as_taggable<\/code><\/p>\n

Related Links<\/h2>\n