Best way to implement voting in a Rails application?

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What's the best plugin these days for implementing voting on a Rails site?

Two I'm aware of are:

Likeable uses Redis to store likes: https://github.com/schneems/likeable — Kris, Jul 30 '12 at 07:49

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '09 at 14:34

There's no general 'best' solution. Check out how both work and see what best fits what you want and what fits your application's needs. In this case, acts_as_votable allows voting on models. vote_fu contains more as it ads the concept of 'acts_as_voter' to limit the models that may vote. It also adds 'has_karma' to give karma based on user voting.

As you see, both are different options and only you know what best fits your needs.

Andrew Case · Answer 2 · 2012-06-17T20:28:02.840

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vote_fu is very outdated and isn't compatible with modern rails distributions (I'm using 3.2.5). Thumbs_up has replaced it form Rails 3.x development. Go with that or either acts_as_votable as they are still being maintained.

Thumbs_up has some extra options like built-in karma tracking.

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answered Jun 11 '12 at 00:18

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 30 '10 at 12:29

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Coming in a bit late here, but from what I can tell vote_fu was inspired by acts_as_voteable (and supports its syntax), but is more actively developed.

answered May 30 '10 at 12:29

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Best way to implement voting in a Rails application?

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