What is RudderStack?
Short answer: Rudder is an open-source Segment alternative written in Go, built for the enterprise. .
Long answer: Rudder is a platform for collecting, storing and routing customer event data to dozens of tools. Rudder is open-source, can run in your cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure or even your data-centre) and provides a powerful transformation framework to process your event data on the fly.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'rudder_analytics_sync'
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install rudder_analytics_sync
Usage
Create a client instance:
analytics = RudderAnalyticsSync::Client.new(
write_key: <YOUR_WRITE_KEY>, # required
data_plane_url: <DATA_PLANE_URL>
on_error: proc { |error_code, error_body, exception, response|
# defaults to an empty proc
}
)
Use it as you would use analytics-ruby
:
analytics.track(
user_id: user.id,
event: 'Created Account'
)
Batching
You can manually batch events with analytics.batch
:
analytics.batch do |batch|
batch.context = {...} # shared context for all events
batch.integrations = {...} # shared integrations hash for all events
batch.identify(...)
batch.track(...)
batch.track(...)
...
end
Contact Us
If you come across any issues while configuring or using RudderStack, please feel free to contact us or start a conversation on our Discord channel. We will be happy to help you.