Pete On Rails

VoteFu is a voting mixin that allows you to extend your models to vote on one another. Largely based on Cosmin Radoi’s acts_as_voteable plugin, VoteFu adds named_scope support, a set of generators to make using the plugin easier, a :polymorphic association to the voting class (so you can have more than one model type perform votes), and some enhancements for Rails 2.1.

I have simplified the code it requires to cast a vote down from three to one. After setting up your models with the proper mixin functionality, you can cast votes like this:

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   voter.vote_for(voteable)
   # OR
   voter.vote_against(voteable)
  # OR
   voter.vote(voteable, [true | false] )

You can also use the old acts_as_voteable sytnax (which will continue to be supported):

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  vote = Vote.new(:vote => true)
  m    = Model.find(params[:id])
  m.votes    << vote
  user.votes << vote

I hope you find the plugin useful. Comments and feedback welcome. If there is enough demand, I’ll open up a lighthouse project to track issues.

Grab the code from GitHub or visit the VoteFu Page.