Trackster

A lightweight plugin to record visits to supplied URL. This gem is written using Rails version 5.1.4 and Ruby version ruby 2.4.2p198.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'trackster'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install trackster

Generate the pageviews table

$ rake db:migrate

Usage

1. Create trackster.rb as follwing:

   Trackster::Engine.setup do |config|
   config.trackable_regex = ["/a+", "/a[a-z]+"] # Regular Expression match
   config.trackable_urls = ["/tests"] # Full URL match
   config.results_page_username = "hello" # Username for pageview list page
   config.results_page_password = "world" # Password for pageview list page
   end
   

2. Add following to you routes.rb

   mount Trackster::Engine => "/trackster" 
   

3. To enable Trackster to count pageview, add following to your ApplicationController:

   trackster
   

4. The url for pageview list page is "/trackster/pageviews"

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.