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MakeFlaggable is an extension for building a user-centric flagging system for Rails 3 applications. It currently supports ActiveRecord models.
Special thanks to medihack for providing this awesome gem!
add MakeFlaggable to your Gemfile
gem 'make_flaggable', :git => 'git://github.com/cavneb/make_flaggable.git'
afterwards execute
bundle install
generate the required migration file
rails generate make_flaggable
migrate the database
rake db:migrate
# Specify a model that can be flagged and provide the names of the flags class Article < ActiveRecord::Base make_flaggable :inappropriate, :favorite end # Specify a model that can flag another model. class User < ActiveRecord::Base make_flagger end # The user can now flag the flaggable. # If the user already flagged the flaggable with the :flag_name then an AlreadyFlaggedError is raised. user.flag!(article, :flag_name) # The method without bang(!) does not raise the AlreadyFlaggedError when the user flags the flaggable more than once. # Instead it just returns false and ignores the flagging. user.flag(article, :flag_name) # The user may unflag an already done flagging. # If the user never flagged the flaggable then an NotFlaggedError is raised. user.unflag!(article, :flag_name) # The method without bang(!) does not raise the NotFlaggedError, but just returns false if the user never flagged # the flaggable. user.unflag(article, :flag_name) # The user can also easily toggle the state of a flag: subsquent calls to toggle_flag will flag/unflag it: user.toggle_flag(article, :flag_name) # returns true as the flag has been set user.toggle_flag(article, :flag_name) # returns false as the flag has now been removed user.toggle_flag(article, :flag_name) # flag set again # Get all flaggings of a flaggable. article.flaggings # Get the flagging with a specified flag. article.flaggings.with_flag(:flag_name) # Get the flagger of the flagging. flagging = article.flaggings.with_flag(:flag_name).first user = flagging.flagger # Returns true if the flagger flagged the flaggable, false otherwise. user.flagged?(article, :flag_name) # Returns true if the flagger flagged the flaggable with any flag, false otherwise. # A more concise version of user.flaggings.with_flaggable(article) user.flagged?(article) # Return true if the flaggable was flagged by the flagger, false otherwise. article.flagged_by?(user, :flag_name) # Returns true if the article was flagged by any flagger at all, false otherwise. article.flagged?(:flag_name) # Flaggings can also be accessed by its flagger. flagger.flaggings or flagger.flaggings.with_flag(:flag_name) or flagger.flaggings.with_flaggable(:flaggable) # Get the available flags for a flaggable article.available_flags # Get the available flags for a flaggable class Article.available_flags # Get the last Flagging made on an article (Flaggable) by a user (Flagger) # Format: # # of any type # flagger.find_last_flag_for(flaggable) user.find_last_flag_for(article) # # of a specific type # flagger.find_last_flag_for(flaggable, flag) user.find_last_flag_for(article, :inappropriate) # Get all Flaggings made on an article (Flaggable) by a user (Flagger) # Format: # # of any type # flagger.find_all_flags_for(flaggable) user.find_all_flags_for(article) # # of a specific type # flagger.find_all_flags_for(flaggable, flag) user.find_all_flags_for(article, :spam)
MakeFlaggable uses RSpec for testing and has a rake task for executing the provided specs
rake spec
or simply
rake
Copyright © 2010-2011 Kai Schlamp (www.medihack.org), released under the MIT license
Modified to use specified flags by Eric Berry