On 7 April 2010 08:57, Sean E. <[email protected]> wrote:
> So I've got a model called Item and one of its properties is called
> "tags". It's just string that is a simple comma separated list of tags
> associated with the item. I'm trying to do two things. First create a
> list of items with the most common tags (the top ten or so) and second
> allow the user to click on a link that will show all the items with the
> selected tag.

Stop and refactor that into a "has_many :tags"/"belongs_to :item" association.
Your life will be much easier.

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