Allow Self Love with Thumbs Up

[pboling]

Where is the love?

I have Users that need to vote on other Users (hypothetically, of course).

class User
  acts_as_voter     # People vote ...
  acts_as_voteable  # On other people
end

This adds two has_many relationships to the class with the second obscuring the first:

  has_many :votes, :as => :voter, :dependent => :destroy
  has_many :votes, :as => :voteable, :dependent => :destroy

With this pull request the relationship name is configurable, though by default stays as :votes for both, so it is fully backward compatible. Now you can do the following in an initializer:

ThumbsUp.configure do |config|
  config.voteable_relationship_name = :votes_by
  config.voter_relationship_name    = :votes_on
end

Now on any given user:

u = User.first
u.votes_on # => the votes that have been cast on this user
u.votes_by # => the votes that have been cast by this user

Thanks for the great voting tool!

Backwards Compatability

• 100%
• Didn't even need to alter any test code
• Defaults preserve the old behavior

Tests

• They all pass
• I updated the README instructions with what I had to do to get it running on latest postgres, and latest mysql

[bouchard]

This is a very well written pull request, thanks for contributing! Merged.

[pboling]

I missed another typo. I re-used the configuration I added to I18n::Airbrake as the template - and I miseed an I18n in a comment. :( Submitted another PR with typo fix.

[pboling]

@bouchard - I have realized that, although the primary relationship name change is working fine here, the votes method is used directly in most of the methods in ActsAsVoteable. I need to re-direct those calls to the dynamic _votes_by which will call the configured relationship. Once I do that, this will be fully working.

As long as people don't use this new configuration yet this merge won't cause any issues. But the new configurable relationship names are not fully working yet. I'll fix it soon and send another PR.

[bouchard]

Sounds good! Would you mind adding failing tests for the current configuration when you do, please?

On 2013-04-02, at 7:13 PM, Peter Boling notifications@github.com wrote:

@bouchard - I have realized that, although the primary relationship name change is working fine here, the votes method is used directly in most of the methods in ActsAsVoteable. I need to re-direct those calls to the dynamic _votes_by which will call the configured relationship. Once I do that, this will be fully working. As long as people don't use this new configuration yet this merge won't cause any issues. But the configuratio nis not fully working. I'll fix it soon and send another PR.

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[pboling]

Yep!