Mongolytics

Description

Simple analytics tracking for Rails using the awesomest: MongoDB

Dependencies

Rails
MongoDB
MongoMapper

Installation

sudo gem install mongolytics

Setup

Just be sure to setup MongoMapper to connect to MongoDB in environment.rb:

Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
  config.gem 'mongomapper', :version => '>= 0.2.1'
end

MongoMapper.database = "databasename-#{Rails.env}"

More Information

Usage

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  include Mongolytics::Tracker
end

In your controllers call any of these (creates an after_filter):

track_all_stats                               # tracks all actions
track_view_stats                              # tracks index, show
track_change_stats                            # tracks create, update, destroy
track_stats_for :new, :edit, :show, :destroy  # track any action mix, other actions

If you want to track a custom session variable:

track_session_key :username           # tracks session[:username] as a String
track_session_key :user_id, Integer   # tracks session[:user_id] as an Integer

Later, retrieve stats via (given UsersController is our controller):

# by path, useful for getting per-id stats e.g., /users/1
Mongolytics.stats_for_path user_path(@user)               # using the path helper (not url helper)

# by controller and action keys, useful if you want all views of users/show page
Mongolytics.stats_for_keys :users, :show                  # using the controller and action

# by controller/action and session key/value hash
Mongolytics.stats_for_keys :users, :show, :user_id => 1   # note: session keys, not request params

You can always query the Statistics:

Mongolytics::Statistic.count({:user_id => 1})

Motivation

Why use MongoDB?

It's cool, I wanted to learn it, it's unbelievably fast, and they're working on a restful API which might do cool things (pooled analytics tracking)

This is lame!

I know I'm only taking hit counts, and not really doing much to track unique views, or user tracking, or determining user environments. The reason being: that's not what I wanted to do!

If you want that stuff, and great reporting, and cool graphs: use Google Analytics. It's perfect for that stuff! I just wanted counts on certain pages that weren't trackable by GA because of their lack of unique url, or view (e.g., create/update/destroy).

License

Copyright (c) 2009 Tony Pitale

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