Skip to content

qstream/acts_as_commentable

Repository files navigation

Acts As Commentable
=================

Allows for comments to be added to multiple and different models.

== Resources

Install

  Rails

   * To install as a plugin:
 
    script/plugin install http://github.com/jackdempsey/acts_as_commentable.git

   * To install as a gem
   sudo gem install 

  Merb/Rails
  
   * To install as a gem:
    Run the following if you haven't already:
    gem sources -a http://gems.github.com

    Install the gem(s):
    sudo gem install jackdempsey-acts_as_commentable

    add the folloowing line to your environment.rb
    config.gem 'jackdempsey-acts_as_commentable', :lib => 'acts_as_commentable', :source => "http://gems.github.com"
   
 
 Generate your comment model:
 
 script/generate comment
 
 Then migrate your database:
 
 rake db:migrate

== Usage
 Merb Users:
 * add 'dependency "acts_as_commentable"' to your init.rb or dependencies.rb if using merb-stack
 
 * Make your ActiveRecord model act as commentable.
 
 class Model < ActiveRecord::Base
 	acts_as_commentable
 end
 
 * Add a comment to a model instance
 
 commentable = Model.create
 commentable.comments.create(:title => "First comment.", :comment => "This is the first comment.")

 * Fetch comments for a commentable model:
 
 commentable = Model.find(1)
 comments = commentable.comments.recent.limit(10).all

 # Following doesn't work/make sense to me. Leaving for historical sake -- Jack
 # * Each comment reference commentable object
 #
 # model = Model.find(1)
 # model.comments.get(0).commentable == model

== Credits

Xelipe - This plugin is heavily influenced by Acts As Taggable.

== More

http://www.juixe.com/techknow/index.php/2006/06/18/acts-as-commentable-plugin/
http://www.juixe.com/projects/acts_as_commentable

Releases

No releases published

Packages

No packages published

Languages