# The Tag model. This model is automatically generated and added to your app if you run the tagging generator included with has_many_polymorphs. class Tag < ActiveRecord::Base DELIMITER = " " # Controls how to split and join tagnames from strings. You may need to change the validates_format_of parameters if you change this. # If database speed becomes an issue, you could remove these validations and rescue the ActiveRecord database constraint errors instead. validates_presence_of :name validates_uniqueness_of :name, :case_sensitive => false # Change this validation if you need more complex tag names. validates_format_of :name, :with => /^[a-zA-Z0-9\_\-]+$/, :message => "can not contain special characters" # Set up the polymorphic relationship. has_many_polymorphs :taggables, :from => [:products], :through => :taggings, :dependent => :destroy, :skip_duplicates => false, :parent_extend => proc { # Defined on the taggable models, not on Tag itself. Return the tagnames associated with this record as a string. def to_s self.map(&:name).sort.join(Tag::DELIMITER) end } # Callback to strip extra spaces from the tagname before saving it. If you allow tags to be renamed later, you might want to use the before_save callback instead. def before_create self.name = name.downcase.strip.squeeze(" ") end # Tag::Error class. Raised by ActiveRecord::Base::TaggingExtensions if something goes wrong. class Error < StandardError end end