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user1184108
user1184108

Reputation:

RoR: How do I count hits to specific links

I'm newbie in Ruby on Rails

I want to count hits to specific links, store count in database, and it will be great if it'll count only unique links.

Is there any gem or something?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 696

Answers (1)

iblue
iblue

Reputation: 30404

Add this to your ApplicationController (app/controllers/application_controller.rb):

before_filter :count_hits
def count_hits
  # This tries to find a existing PageHit by the given url. If it does
  # not find one, it creates one.
  @hit = PageHit.find_or_create_by_url(request.url)

  # Issues an UPDATE page_hits WHERE id = 123 SET count = count + 1
  # on the underlying database layer. This atomically increments, so
  # you do not run into race conditions.
  PageHit.increment_counter(:count, @hit.id)
end

Make sure you create a PageHit model, containing an url string and a count integer.

Upvotes: 2

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