help needed regaring Acts As Taggable On Steroids

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Hello,       In my rails application, I have a book model.       I want to add tags. For that I have installed       acts_as_taggable_on_steroids from this link      http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids      and do as the readme file. This is my Model :   class Book < ActiveRecord::Base     acts_as_taggable   end

Here is my ApplicationHelper : module ApplicationHelper   include TagsHelper end

And I couldn't get the idea what should I add in the controller to save tags(please guide me to save tags) . I just try to follow the readme and Edited part of BookController is:

def create     @book = Book.new(params[:book])     @book.tag_list #     @book.tag_list = "Funny, Silly"    respond_to do |format|       if @book.save         flash[:notice] = 'Book was successfully created.'         format.html { redirect_to(@book) }         format.xml { render :xml => @book, :status => :created, :location => @book }       else         format.html { render :action => "new" }         format.xml { render :xml => @book.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }       end     end   end

def tag_cloud       @tags = Books.tag_counts     end

In the new.html.erb I have added these lines : <% tag_cloud @tags, %w(css1 css2 css3 css4) do |tag, css_class| %>     <%= link_to tag.name, { :action => :tag, :id => tag.name }, :class => css_class %>   <% end %>

After I restarting the server, When I want to create a new book entry it shows error as below:

"You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occurred while evaluating nil.empty?" And the error details shows that the error is in tag_cloud

When I add a TagList.delimiter = " " in config/environment.rb and restart the server.. the server stop with error showing as uninitialized constant TagList .

Please help me as I am new in ruby. Thanks in advance.

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Mac Eros wrote:

Hello, Edited part of BookController is:

def create     @book = Book.new(params[:book])     @book.tag_list #     @book.tag_list = "Funny, Silly"    respond_to do |format|       if @book.save         flash[:notice] = 'Book was successfully created.'         format.html { redirect_to(@book) }         format.xml { render :xml => @book, :status => :created, :location => @book }       else         format.html { render :action => "new" }         format.xml { render :xml => @book.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }       end     end   end

def tag_cloud       @tags = Books.tag_counts     end

In the new.html.erb I have added these lines : <% tag_cloud @tags, %w(css1 css2 css3 css4) do |tag, css_class| %>     <%= link_to tag.name, { :action => :tag, :id => tag.name }, :class => css_class %>   <% end %>

I have done almost the same but in create methos I have place the code @book = Book.new(params[:book])     @book.tag_with(params[:tag_list])    respond_to do |format|     ...... and in new.html.erb <%= text_field_tag 'tag_list', @book.tags.collect{|t| t.name}.join(" ") %>

But when I run the application and try to create a new Entry if shows the error that "undefined method `tag_with' for #<Book:0x4a8bc14> " Please help me. Thanks in advance.