Repo brief: mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on

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Verdict

Healthy — Strong maintenance signals

• Last commit 4w ago
• 41+ active contributors
• Distributed ownership (top contributor 40% of recent commits)
• MIT licensed
• 2 more receipts on the live page

Based on Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

What it is

Acts as Taggable On is a Rails gem that adds flexible, dynamic tagging functionality to ActiveRecord models. Unlike simple tag plugins, it supports multiple independent tag contexts (e.g., skills, interests, sports) on the same object, allowing fine-grained categorization and querying. Core features include tag ownership, dirty tracking, tag clouds, and multiple query modes (all tags, any tags, exclude tags). Monolithic Rails gem with engine-based architecture. Core logic in lib/acts-as-taggable-on/ splits into: taggable concerns (caching, collection, ownership, related tags), query builders (all_tags, any_tags, exclude_tags), parsers (default, generic), and database models (Tag, Tagging,…

Start here

Open these first:

• lib/acts-as-taggable-on.rb — Main entry point that loads the engine and all core tagging functionality.
• lib/acts-as-taggable-on/taggable/core.rb — Core mixin defining the acts_as_taggable method that enables tagging on any Rails model.
• lib/acts-as-taggable-on/tag.rb — Tag model representing individual tags and their persistent storage.
• lib/acts-as-taggable-on/tagging.rb — Tagging join model linking tags to tagged objects with context and ownership support.
• lib/acts-as-taggable-on/tag_list.rb — TagList collection class managing tag string parsing and manipulation.

Get running

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git clone https://github.com/mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on.git
cd acts-as-taggable-on
bundle install
bundle exec rake spec

(Uses Bundler and Rake; Gemfile present; .rspec config indicates RSpec as test framework.)

Daily commands:

bundle exec rake spec              # Run full test suite
bundle exec guard                 # Watch mode with Guard
bundle exec appraisal install     # Setup all Rails versions
bundle exec appraisal rake spec   # Test against all gemfiles

Key cautions & unknowns

• Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
• Post-install rake task: Must run rake acts_as_tagga (or bundle exec rake acts_as_tagga in modern Rails) to load the single migration file—gem does not auto-run migrations. MySQL collation: README explicitly…
• Published-advisory coverage was unavailable for the captured dependencies.
• Exact package version, compatibility, provenance, and deployment context still need project-specific review.

Sources

• Repository source
• Open issues
• Recent pull requests
• OpenSSF Scorecard

Evidence note

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