Getting tag count with Act_as_taggable_on not working

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I've implemented the acts_as_taggable_on gem and I can see on the db the tag table which tags I have.

I am tagging the model Card, and when I do Card.tag_counts

all I get is

 [#<ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag id: 1, name: "test4">, #<ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag id: 2, name: "you">, #<ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag id: 3, name: "test">, #<ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag id: 4, name: "tyy">, #<ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag id: 5, name: "tetes">]

even though I have some cards with the same tag

I've verified this by Card.all.map{|c| c.tags}

and got

[#<ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag id: 1, name: "test4">], [#<ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag id: 2, name: "you">,  #ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag id: 1, name: "test4">], [#<ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag id: 3, name: "test">,  #ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag id: 2, name: "you">], [#<ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag id: 4, name: "tyy">], [#ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag id: 5, name: "tetes">], [#<ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag id: 2, name: "you">], [#ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag id: 2, name: "you">], [#<ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag id: 2, name: "you">]]

so obivously I have a tag for more than once card.

Why won't Card.tag_counts show me the count, and if its not the way how can I get the tag_count?

that gives me the same result.. see my answer below – Nick Ginanto Oct 23 '12 at 16:35 — Nick Ginanto, Oct 23 '12 at 16:35

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 23 '12 at 16:35

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You need to actually call .count on the returned Tag objects.

ActsAsTaggableOn is using a custom select to return the counts, and when one does that, the selected values (count, in this case) are accessible, but don't show up in inspect.

answered Oct 23 '12 at 16:35

MrTheWalrus

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 23 '12 at 16:34

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according to https://github.com/mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on/issues/185

in order to get all the tag counts you must do something like

Card.tag_count.map{|x| [x.name,x.count]}

which is pretty ugly...

answered Oct 23 '12 at 16:34

Nick Ginanto

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Getting tag count with Act_as_taggable_on not working

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