Simple tagging for redmine. Features:

• Tag cloud in the sidebar

• Tag suggestion/autocomplete

• Redmine search integration (search for #tag to find wikis/issues)

• Filter issues on tags

Spaces or commas will act as a separator when editing tags

{{tagcloud}} will render a tag cloud. Most likely use would be in an wiki sidebar. The tagcloud will automatically be rendered in the issues list sidebar.

This plugin needs acts-as-taggable-on from rymai (github.com/rymai/acts-as-taggable-on) to be installed. The original plugin from github.com/mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on needs patches to make it compatible with rails 2.3.5, which Redmine uses.

The plugin also needs rails_sql_views. It might install automatically by just doing ‘gem install rails_sql_views’. If not (it didn’t for me when 0.7.0 was available), try:

$ git clone http://github.com/woodchuck/rails_sql_views.git
$ cd rails_sql_views
$ rake gem
$ sudo gem install --local pkg/rails_sql_views-0.*.gem

While patches to acts-as-taggable-on are not merged to upstream, you should use a fork of it. Installation is performed with:

$ script/plugin install http://github.com/rymai/acts-as-taggable-on.git
$ script/plugin install http://github.com/friflaj/redmine_tagging.git

You need to set up database for acts-as-taggable-on:

1a) for Rails 2 (which Redmine currently uses):

$ env RAILS_ENV=production script/generate acts_as_taggable_on_migration

1b) for Rails 3:

$ rails generation acts_as_taggable_on:migration

2)

$ rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
$ rake db:migrate_plugins RAILS_ENV=production

See the README of acts-as-taggable-on for details.

I’ve added a switch so you can choose between in-line tag editing with {{tag(some tags here-or-there)}} or editing the tags in a separate edit field. After you’ve changed the setting in Administration -> Plugins -> Configure -> Tagging, run

$ rake redmine:tagging:reconfigure RAILS_ENV=production

to put tags in the body or remove them, depending on what you configured for your installation. Not doing so will cause data (tag) loss when moving from non-inline to inline.

Inline tagging using {{tag(bla bla)}} saves your tags when the body is rendered. A nasty side-effect of this is that if you want to remove all tags from an object, you must add {{tag}} to the body to actually clear the tags. After it’s been rendered once, you can remove it from the body.

If you’re getting “Mysql::Error: Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes: CREATE INDEX ‘index_taggings_on_taggable_id_and_taggable_type_and_context` ON `taggings` (`taggable_id`, `taggable_type`, `context`)”, that’s a known problem in mysql, triggered by acts-as-taggable-on. You can work around it by changing

add_index :taggings, :tag_id
add_index :taggings, [:taggable_id, :taggable_type, :context]

into

add_index :taggings, :tag_id
add_index :taggings, :taggable_id
add_index :taggings, :taggable_type
add_index :taggings, :context

in the migration of acts-as-taggable-on