One of the most populair Ruby on Rails plugins is acts_as_taggable. More specifically the enhanced version acts_as_taggable on steriods. It allows you to easily add tags to any model and helps you generate tag clouds.

After reading Nate Koechley article on Yahoo’s term extractor API i was inspired to connect it to acts_as_taggable_on_steroids. The goal is to parse any peace of content (article, blog post, review etc.) and  let Yahoo return a list of terms or tags.

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