Acts As Commentable

Allows for comments to be added to multiple and different models.

Resources

Install

• To install as a gem (recommended):

** gem install acts_as_commentable ** add the following line to your environment.rb: config.gem ‘acts_as_commentable’ ** If using bundler then just add “gem ‘acts_as_commentable’” to your Gemfile and “bundle install”

• To install as a plugin

** Rails 3: script/plugin install github.com/jackdempsey/acts_as_commentable.git ** Rails 2: script/plugin install github.com/jackdempsey/acts_as_commentable.git -r 2.x

Generate your comment model:

script/generate comment

Then migrate your database:

rake db:migrate

Usage

* Make your ActiveRecord model act as commentable.

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
	acts_as_commentable
end

* Add a comment to a model instance

commentable = Post.create
commentable.comments.create(:title => "First comment.", :comment => "This is the first comment.")

* Fetch comments for a commentable model:

commentable = Post.find(1)
comments = commentable.comments.recent.limit(10).all

* Add multiple type of comments to a model

class Todo < ActiveRecord::Base
	acts_as_commentable :public, :private
end

* Fetch comments for a this model:

public_comments = Todo.find(1).public_comments
private_comments = Todo.find(1).private_comments

Credits

Xelipe - This plugin is heavily influenced by Acts As Taggable.

Contributors

Jack Dempsey, Chris Eppstein, Jim Ray, Matthew Van Horn, Ole Riesenberg, ZhangJinzhu, maddox, monocle

More

www.juixe.com/techknow/index.php/2006/06/18/acts-as-commentable-plugin/ www.juixe.com/projects/acts_as_commentable