Module: Search::Sniffer::ControllerMethods

Defined in:
lib/search-sniffer/search-sniffer.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#sniff_referring_search ⇒ Object

Creates @referring_search containing any referring search engine query minus stop words

eg. If the HTTP_REFERER header indicates page referer as:

http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+on+rails+houston&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

then this function will create:
@referring_search = "Ruby Rails Houston"



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# File 'lib/search-sniffer/search-sniffer.rb', line 15

def sniff_referring_search
  # Check whether referring URL was a search engine result
  # uncomment out the line below to test
  # request.env["HTTP_REFERER"] = "http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+on+rails+houston&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a"
  referer = request.env["HTTP_REFERER"]
  @referring_search = ReferringSearch.new(referer)
  true
end