Comments on: Acts As Commentable Plugin

By: J

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:26:15 +0000

It works for me in Rails 3.0.5 and Ruby 1.9.2, but it’s a little bit annoying that I need to specify the user_id manually in the comment object:

comment = Comment.new(:title => ‘t’, :comment => ‘c’, :user_id => 1)
post.comments << comment

if the post object has an user_id property why not using it? maybe through the add_comment method:

def add_comment(comment)
comment.user_id = user_id
comments << comment
end

I don't if I'm the only one having this problem. do I?

By: Data structures are complicated! [schema for storing gaming team match results] | Tom Russell – A Ruby/Rails Developer

Sun, 08 May 2011 08:49:50 +0000

[...] matches between themselves and other teams. These should be commentable (i thought about using acts_as_commentable, but that doesn’t provide admin management of comments, anonymous commenting, or a captcha [...]

By: Rahil Sondhi

Rahil Sondhi — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:14:50 +0000

Wow, thank you! More than four years later, your plugin still works. I’m using Rails 3.0.0 and Ruby 1.9.2.

By: TechKnow

TechKnow — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:39:46 +0000

@Jeff – Thanks for that info, I test this on a more recent Rails version. I can’t believe it, but this plugin was originally written in Rails 1.2 and now there is talk of Rails 3.0.

By: Jeff Tucker

Jeff Tucker — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:59:43 +0000

Thanks for the plugin! One issue I had when installing though — I grabbed the gem from your most recent commit (19 May 2009) and had the error:

Expects acts_as_commentable.rb to define ActsAsCommentable (LoadError).

I had to add

require 'comment_methods'

to the top of lib/acts_as_commentable.rb to get everything running.

By: Auraelius

Auraelius — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:37:15 +0000

Hi,
I’m having trouble when using acts_as_commentable with restful_authentication: The user_id field in the comment table is never getting set — all the values are NULL.

I have a “users” table as supplied by that plugin. Is acts_as_commentable looking for a “user” table? I’m still trying to understand all of Rails’ pluralization.

Where in the code does the user_id get set? I’m stepping through the process with a debugger and can’t see it happening. Is this something ActiveRecord does?

Thanks for helping a newbie figure things out!

By: AJAX with acts_as_commentable — sideline

AJAX with acts_as_commentable — sideline — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:14:21 +0000

[...] had fun this weekend with AJAX-ifying an implementation of the acts_as_commentable plugin. After reading (and implementing) Dave Naffis’ article on adding AJAX to the [...]

By: Fran

Fran — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:21:05 +0000

Herval's dirty little hack to use counter_cache (site is down):

#comments.rb

def after_create
 if commentable.attributes['comments_count']
  commentable.increment!(”comments_count”)
 end
end

def before_destroy
 if commentable.attributes['comments_count']
  commentable.class.decrement_counter(”comments_count”, commentable.id)
 end
end

By: Getting Close

Getting Close — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:52:30 +0000

[...] the acts_as_commentable plugin to the newest version. This allows me to streamline the code and add times to the [...]

By: Alexey

Alexey — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:39:23 +0000

I just remember year ago i put this plugin in rails 1.2.6 .. now in 2.1.2 :)