Module: MetaEvents::Helpers

Defined in:
lib/meta_events/helpers.rb

Overview

This module gets included as a Rails helper module, if Rails is available. It defines methods that are usable by views to do tracking from the front-end – both auto-tracking and frontend events.

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.meta_events_javascript_tracking_prefix(prefix = nil) ⇒ Object

Defines (or returns) the prefix we use for our class and data attributes; this just needs to be unique enough that we are highly unlikely to collide with any other attributes.



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# File 'lib/meta_events/helpers.rb', line 10

def meta_events_javascript_tracking_prefix(prefix = nil)
  if prefix == nil
    @_meta_events_javascript_tracking_prefix
  else
    if (prefix.kind_of?(String) || prefix.kind_of?(Symbol)) && prefix.to_s.strip.length > 0
      @_meta_events_javascript_tracking_prefix = prefix.to_s.strip
      @_meta_events_javascript_tracking_prefix = $1 if @_meta_events_javascript_tracking_prefix =~ /^([^_]+)_+$/i
    else
      raise ArgumentError, "Must supply a String or Symbol, not: #{prefix.inspect}"
    end
  end
end

Instance Method Details

#meta_events_frontend_events_javascript ⇒ Object

Returns a JavaScript string that, when placed on a page into which meta_events.js.erb has been included, sets up all defined front-end events so that they can be fired by that JavaScript.



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# File 'lib/meta_events/helpers.rb', line 106

def meta_events_frontend_events_javascript
  out = ""
  (meta_events_defined_frontend_events || { }).each do |name, properties|
    out << "MetaEvents.registerFrontendEvent(#{name.to_json}, #{properties.to_json});\n"
  end
  out.html_safe
end

#meta_events_prefix_attribute(name) ⇒ Object

PRIVATE (though there’s no point to declaring something private in a helper; everything’s being called from the same object anyway). Simply prepends our prefix, plus an underscore, to whatever’s passed in.



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# File 'lib/meta_events/helpers.rb', line 29

def meta_events_prefix_attribute(name)
  "#{MetaEvents::Helpers.meta_events_javascript_tracking_prefix}_#{name}"
end

#meta_events_tracked_link_to(name = nil, options = nil, html_options = nil, &block) ⇒ Object

This works exactly like Rails’ built-in link_to method, except that it takes a :meta_event property in html_options and turns the link into a tracked link, using #meta_events_tracking_attributes_for, above.

The :meta_event property is actually required; this is because, presumably, you’re calling this method exactly because you want to track something, and if you didn’t pass :meta_event, you probably misspelled or forgot about it.

Obviously, feel free to create a shorter alias for this method in your application; we give it a long, unique name here so that we don’t accidentally collide with another helper method in your project.



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# File 'lib/meta_events/helpers.rb', line 95

def meta_events_tracked_link_to(name = nil, options = nil, html_options = nil, &block)
  unless html_options && html_options[:meta_event]
    raise ArgumentError, "You asked for a tracked link, but you didn't provide a :meta_event: #{html_options.inspect}"
  end

  link_to(name, options, meta_events_tracking_attributes_for(html_options, meta_events_tracker), &block)
end

#meta_events_tracking_attributes_for(input_attributes, event_tracker = meta_events_tracker) ⇒ Object

Given a Hash of attributes for an element – and, optionally, a MetaEvents::Tracker instance to use; we default to using the one exposed by the meta_events_tracker method – extracts a :meta_event property, if present, and turns it into exactly the attributes that meta_events.js.erb can use to detect that this is an element we want to track (and thus correctly return it from its forAllTrackableElements method). If no :meta_event key is present on the incoming set of attributes, simply returns exactly its input.

The :meta_event property must be a Hash, containing:

:category

The name of the category of the event;

:event

The name of the event within the category;

:properties

Any additional properties to fire with the event; this is optional.



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# File 'lib/meta_events/helpers.rb', line 44

def meta_events_tracking_attributes_for(input_attributes, event_tracker = meta_events_tracker)
  # See if we've even got an event...
  return input_attributes unless input_attributes && (input_attributes[:meta_event] || input_attributes['meta_event'])

  # If so, let's start populating our set of output attributes.
  # #with_indifferent_access dups the Hash even if it already has indifferent access, which is important here
  output_attributes = input_attributes.with_indifferent_access
  event_data = output_attributes.delete(:meta_event)

  # A little error-checking...
  unless event_data.kind_of?(Hash)
    raise ArgumentError, ":meta_event must be a Hash, not: #{event_data.inspect}"
  end

  event_data.assert_valid_keys(%w{category event properties})

  # Grab our event data...
  category = event_data[:category]
  event = event_data[:event]
  properties = event_data[:properties] || { }

  unless category && event
    raise ArgumentError, "You must supply :category and :event in your :meta_event attributes, not: #{event_data.inspect}"
  end

  # Ask the Tracker to compute the set of properties we should be firing with this event...
  props_data = event_tracker.effective_properties(category, event, properties)

  # Add our class to the +:class+ attribute -- Rails supports declaring +:class+ as an Array, and so we'll use
  # that here. It works fine even if +:class+ is a string of space-separated class names.
  classes = Array(output_attributes.delete(:class) || [ ])
  classes << meta_events_prefix_attribute("trk")
  output_attributes[:class] = classes

  # Set the data attributes we'll be looking for...
  output_attributes["data-#{meta_events_prefix_attribute('evt')}"] = props_data[:event_name]
  output_attributes["data-#{meta_events_prefix_attribute('prp')}"] = props_data[:properties].to_json

  # And we're done!
  output_attributes
end