What

Tagging library for Ruby

Provide a robust tagging API that solves the problems posed by Acidus:

  1. How to handle multiple words

  2. If/how to allow tag delimiter inside a tag

  3. Does letter case matter

  4. Punctuation and symbols

  5. Handling plural or singular words

  6. Date formating

  7. Multiple language support

  8. Colloquialisms/slang

YTag handles cases 1, 2, 3, and 4, as these are syntactic issues. Cases 5, 6, 7, and 8 are more interesting. I think they should really be left to user creativity. Case 6 is not a problem because YTag maintains independent date and time stamps for tags, so even if I encode it in the tag in a weird manner, any user will be able to get at an ISO-standard date/time stamp.

At the end of the day, YTag draws a lot of inspiration from Consumating [RIP] and del.icio.us.

References: neosmart.net/blog/2007/the-need-for-creating-tag-standards/ www.memestreams.net/users/acidus/blogid152074

How

require ‘rubygems’ require ‘ytag’

Dependencies:

  • HTMLEntities gem

  • REX gem

  • RCL gem

What you get:

YTag::Tag#new(name, user, active=true, hidden=false) YTag::Tag#create YTag::Tag#modify YTag::Tag#access YTag::Tag#print

YTag::tagify(tag)

Install

To construct a Ruby gem, just type:

rake gem

To install it, type:

sudo gem install pkg/ytag-0.0.1.gem

Notes

I haven’t tested this code with YARV, so YMMV.

Contribute

The source is availble at github: git://github.com/yesmar/ytag.git. Feel free to clone it and implement your own awesome ideas. You can also send your patches by email to yesmar[at]speakeasynet.