This is my latest installment on Ruby on Rails plugins. Here is a rails plugin<\/b> which can help your user manage bookmarks of model records. A bookmarkable model can be any ActiveRecord class so you can use the acts_as_bookmarkable to bookmark other users in a friends list, or bookmark posts in a favorites list, etc. And following the Web 2.0 trends, bookmarks themselves can act as taggable<\/b> so that you can label bookmarks with tags. You need to install the acts_as_taggable plugin separately, or you can remove one line in the bookmark.rb file to disable tags for bookmarks.<\/p>\n
To get started download the plugin from its repository:<\/p>\n
\nscript\/plugin install http:\/\/juixe.com\/svn\/acts_as_bookmarkable\n<\/pre>\nThe installation process will add several ruby files in the vendor\/plugins directory. Create a new rails migration and cut and past the following self.up and self.down methods:<\/p>\n
\ndef self.up\n create_table :bookmarks, :force => true do |t|\n t.column :title, :string, :limit => 50, :default => \"\"\n t.column :created_at, :datetime, :null => false\n t.column :bookmarkable_type, :string,\n :limit => 15, :default => \"\", :null => false\n t.column :bookmarkable_id, :integer, :default => 0, :null => false\n t.column :user_id, :integer, :default => 0, :null => false\n end\n\n add_index :bookmarks, [\"user_id\"], :name => \"fk_bookmarks_user\"\nend\n\ndef self.down\n drop_table :bookmarks\nend\n<\/pre>\nOnce you have the acts_as_bookmarkable plugin installed you can make your ActiveRecord classes act as models that can be bookmarkable by calling the acts_as_bookmakble method.<\/p>\n
\nclass Post < ActiveRecord::Base\n acts_as_bookmarkable\nend\n<\/pre>\nIn your controller you can bookmark a post with just a few lines of code:<\/p>\n
\npost = Post.find(params[:id])\nbmark = Bookmark.new(:title => someTitle)\npost.bookmarks << bmark\n<\/pre>\nAnd like my other plugins you can assign a bookmark to a user by using the user_id property. Here is an example of how to assign a bookmark to a user model.<\/p>\n
\nbmark = Bookmark.new(:title => someTitle, :user_id => session[:user].id)\n<\/pre>\nYou have two options to retrieve the bookmarks for a given user. You can look up all the bookmarks for the given user that are of a certain bookmarkable type. Lets say I want to find all posts that have been bookmarked by the logged in user. To accomplish this I can do the following:<\/p>\n
\nbmarks = Post.find_bookmarks_by_user(session[:user])\n<\/pre>\nIf you want all bookmarks for a given user, regardless of the type, then you can use the find_bookmarks_by_user method available from the Bookmark class.<\/p>\n
\nbmarks = Bookmark.find_bookmarks_by_user(session[:user])\n<\/pre>\nTechnorati Tags: ruby<\/a>, rails<\/a>, ruby on rails<\/a>, plugin<\/a>, rails plugin<\/a>, activerecord. acts_as_bookmarkable<\/a>, bookmarks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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