Active_poll

Location: Uruguay, Montevideo

This plugin allows polls, integrated with your user model, within your application.

Install plugin * Run the following command:

./script/plugin install http://active-poll.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/active_poll

This command will download the plugin code and run a script. The script will prompt you which is the name of the model you want to associate with a user vote (tipically the user model). . Otherwise, you just can press ENTER, telling the plugin that you don't want to assosiate a model, this way, the plugin would not be able to track which users made the votes for a particular poll.

• Next, run the generator command (which generates model fields & migration files):

./script/generate active_poll

• Update the database, populate the database with the ActivePoll tables:

rake db:migrate

Create poll

• To create a poll use the following command:

./script/runner vendor/plugins/active_poll/create_poll.rb

The script will ask you which are the answers, which is the questions displayed, among other configurations (allows multiple selection, who is allowed to vote: registered users, anonymous, etc.) for the poll.

Show poll in views

• Insert the active_poll helper in your view:

  someview.rhtml (where you want to show the poll)

  .. <%= active_poll ( poll_name, { :in_place => true, :redirect_to => some_url, :view_dir => view_directory } ) %> ..

  Where:

  • poll_name. This is the name that identifies the poll to display. This is the only required parameter.
  • :in_place. Enables AJAX functionality to the poll if it is set to true, otherwise the hole page would be reload while submitting a vote.
  • :redirect_to. This is an url to redirect after the vote.
  • :view_dir. If present, it loads the poll pages (show_poll, already_vote, user_not_logged, etc) from the directory set by this parameter. Otherwise, all the active_poll pages would be take from the views directory inside the active_poll plugin’s folder.

• Insert act_as_vote_handler statement in the controller of the view (where the active_poll helper is used):

  class SomeController end

  acts_as_vote_handler

  ..

More Information, improvment & comments

For more information you can visit the following page: http://railshotspot.blogspot.com/2008/01/activepoll-plugin.html If you have any comments, questions, and/or suggestions please don’t hesitate to send me an email active.poll@gmail.com

NOTE: This description has been extracted from the Plugin README and so the formatting may need updating to make browser friendly

Homepage: http://railshotspot.blogspot.com/2008/01/activepoll-plugin.html