# Which taggable library do people use?

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/which-taggable-library-do-people-use/23546>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [January 20, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/which-taggable-library-do-people-use/23546 "2008-01-20T14:53:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Corey\_Haines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@Corey\_Haines](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Corey_Haines)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/which-taggable-library-do-people-use/23546/1 "2008-01-20T14:53:40Z")

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I’d like to add taggability to a model in the site I’m working on, and I wanted to get an idea of what people are using. I keep seeing that acts\_as\_taggable is deprecated, so I tried the acts\_as\_taggable\_on\_steroids. I also tried be\_taggable.

In any case, I figured I’d see what people use.

thanks. -corey

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**Author:** ![Martin\_Wood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@Martin\_Wood](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Martin_Wood)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/which-taggable-library-do-people-use/23546/2 "2008-01-21T16:01:50Z")

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For my current Rails 2.x project I've ended up going with the the tagging capabilities inherent in Evan Weaver's excellent has\_many\_polymorphs plugin for ActiveRecord.

Very happy so far. See :

> **[growing up your acts\_as\_taggable](https://blog.evanweaver.com/2007/01/13/growing-up-your-acts_as_taggable/)**
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> The acts\_as\_taggable plugin, although built in to Rails, is basically deprecated. And the gem version is old and requires a separate join table for every taggable model, which is silly.update Pleas…

[http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/doc/fauna/has\_many\_polymorphs/files/README.html](http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/doc/fauna/has_many_polymorphs/files/README.html)

...for more detail.

Cheers,

Martin

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**Author:** ![Corey\_Haines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@Corey\_Haines](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Corey_Haines)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/which-taggable-library-do-people-use/23546/3 "2008-01-21T16:27:36Z")

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thanks! I'll check that out.