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nicholas79171
nicholas79171

Reputation: 1273

Is there a "Rails way" to track metrics over time?

If I have an Employees model and want to track how many total employees I have on every Friday and store the results in a file, is there a gem or some feature that would allow easy implementation of this?

My current plan is to use the clockwork gem (final deployment isn't on a Unix server so no Cron jobs, unfortunately) to schedule a task that simply counts the number of employees and writes that to a model.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 146

Answers (3)

myggul
myggul

Reputation: 387

Well, If you can use cron jobs, I recommend whenever gem.

If not, I don't know your server OS but I think the OS has schedule program like crontab. So you write .rake code to generate the file has total employees. And then Input "cd /path/to/app/root/ && bundle exec rake NAMESPACE:TASK" to the schedule program by program syntax

Upvotes: 0

Cyril Duchon-Doris
Cyril Duchon-Doris

Reputation: 13949

I had startd to investigate this but I haven't reached the point where I need to have this.

Basically my idea was to have some "settings class" (for example using mongoid-app-settings or the ActiveRecord equivalent), and a setup like this

class Stats
    setting :my_stat

    def compute_my_stat
        ...
    end

    def self.compute_statistics
      [:my_stat, ...].each do |stat|
        self.send("compute_"#{stat}")
      end
    end
end

Then you can start a rack task that would execute Stats.compute_statistics, using the scheduler you want

Upvotes: 0

Yosep Kim
Yosep Kim

Reputation: 2951

IMHO, having a scheduled job through Cron/clockwork or Windows services would be the best way to achieve this. Your requirement states that the total has to be calculated at a certain time. This requirement has nothing to do with a web application development framework, Rails or not.

Upvotes: 1

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