Comments on: Tutorial: Easy Rails recommendations with acts_as_recommendable

By: movielike

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By: sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:23:18 +0000

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By: Cassio

Cassio — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:56:12 +0000

sounds like a great plugin, but I couldn’t checkout it (./script/plugin install git://github.com/maccman/acts_as_recommendable.git).

By: Hanna

Hanna — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:26:16 +0000

Thanks for the great work, first! It´s all working fine so far.
But when I try to recommend items using a cached dataset, no recommendations are shown. I used the rake task recommendations:build first, there´s no mistake. But I think the dataset is somehow not created.
Can someone give me a hint? Am I missing something?
(I´m relatively new in RoR…) Thanks in advance :-)

By: David Backeus

David Backeus — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:22:05 +0000

I agree that the api should use “recommends” however the plugin could still be named acts as… since it ensures an original name that works and sort of follows an activerecord convention people are used to seeing.

By: rick

rick — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:41:46 +0000

I agree with Steve, ‘acts_as_recommendable :books’ is awkward.

validates_presence_of :login
has_many :user_books
recommends :books, :through => :user_books, …

By: stuart

stuart — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:19:51 +0000

No harm in the crtique.

Wordpress had eaten the link_to_remote (now restored) but self.current_user is restful_authentication thing to reference the current logged in user. You need to move include AuthenticatedSystem to the ApplicationController.

By: Karl

Karl — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:00:44 +0000

Honest, I’m not trying to be critical… but you have a few errors with your tutorial code (i.e. _buyit.html.erb, where is the link_to_remote call?) and other small issues, like ’self.current_user’ is not a controller method. You need to find the user with ‘@user = User.find(session[:user_id])’.

Looks very interesting and I’ll be sure to add it to my github watch list.

By: Steve Mohapi-Banks

Steve Mohapi-Banks — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:39:26 +0000

What about recommend_you, or for that authentic rails plugin vibe, recommend_yu