#364 Active Record Reputation System

Jul 09, 2012 | 10 minutes | Active Record, Plugins

If you need to calculate an average user's rating or sum up a number of votes, consider using the activerecord-reputation-system gem. Here I will cover the basics and also briefly present a from-scratch solution.

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