How to get *ALL* tags on an acts_as_taggable object regardless of its contexts

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First things first.

This is NOT a duplicate of Get all tags on taggable object - no matter context. I am looking for all tags on a specific model object. Not for all possible tags in my entire rails app.

This is NOT a duplicate of Listing all tags for an acts_as_taggable. I am looking for all tag on an object on all contexts - not on just a single context.

I have a my_car instance of a Car class. I have many taggings on it on wheel context, on body context, on interior context, and some general tags on tags context.

While i am able to my_car.tags_list, my_car.wheel_list, my_car.body_list, my_car.interior_list, i am not able to do something like my_car.all_tags so that i can see ALL the tags on the my_car object regardless of their tagging contexts.

How do i do that?

user_6193734 · Answer

c.base_tags.map(&:name)

There is no built-in shortcut to get the names directly, but that's short enough :)

Edit: base_tags is an association defined on classes declared as taggable: has_many :base_tags, through: :taggings, source: :tag, class_name: '::ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag'

Source: https://github.com/mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on/blob/master/lib/acts_as_taggable_on/taggable.rb

How to get ALL tags on an acts_as_taggable object regardless of its contexts

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