Update owner tags via form

Question

I would like to uniquely use owner tags in my app. My problem is that when I create / update a post via a form I only have f.text_field :tag_list which only upd

Answer 1

I used an observer to solve this. Something like:

in /app/models/tagging_observer.rb

class TaggingObserver < ActiveRecord::Observer
  observe ActsAsTaggableOn::Tagging

  def before_save(tagging)
    tagging.tagger = tagging.taggable.user if (tagging.taggable.respond_to?(:user) and tagging.tagger != tagging.taggable.user)
  end
end

Don't forget to declare your observer in application.rb

config.active_record.observers = :tagging_observer