User: -address -email -title -business url Tag: -count -tag string TagAssociation: # basically a NoSQL join table of user<->tag -user_id -tag_id Commit 66f2a599f7f6f25a2ddb68f1b6f25cbd277396d9 has just the User model with authentication/sessions working with MongoDB. Anything after that has the User, if he specifies a URL, get autotagged based on the categories associated with his site on http://www.dmoz.org, the human-curated categorization site. Future updates: 1) Make the user discoverable based on his tags, by leveraging ThriftDB for a simple, powerful search tool. 2) Auto-updating, navigational tag cloud for visual search.
vonkohorn/rails-mongo-auth
Rails3.1 with Mongo, Auth, Sessions, Tagging, Searching baked in. Commit 66f2a599f7f6f25a2ddb68f1b6f25cbd277396d9 has barebones auth, after that tagging and searching are added.
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