Sitealizer Web Stats plugin for Rails

This plugin lets you track visitors, referrers, robots, search terms and more. And it shouldn't influence your site's performance because it only saves the basic visitor information (after every 10(default) visits) in a threaded process and all the data processing is done when viewing the stats.

Author

Thiago Jackiw:

tjackiw at gmail dot com

Current Release

The current stable release is v1.1 released on 03-20-2007.

License Info

Please refer to the LICENSE

Installation

On your Rails’ root directory, just type

  script/plugin install http://opensvn.csie.org/sitealizer

and add the following line to your config/routes.rb:

  map.connect '/sitealizer/:action', :controller => 'sitealizer'

Upgrading from SiteMeter

If you had previously installed ‘sitemeter’ you need to run the following command after installing Sitealizer, otherwise your stats will not be imported:

  rake sitealizer:remove_sitemeter

You also need to change:

  * include SiteMeter TO Include Sitealizer
  * before_filter :use_site_meter TO before_filter :use_sitealizer
  * map.connect '/sitemeter/:action', :controller => 'sitemeter' TO map.connect '/sitealizer/:action', :controller => 'sitealizer'

Configuration

There are four configuration options that can be changed under sitealizer/lib/config.yml:

access_type:	Accepts private or public as the value. Private: you have to enter the username and password below in order to view the stats. Public: Anyone can view your site’s stats
username:	This username will be used to log in to your Sitealizer
password:	This password will be used to log in to your Sitealizer
queue_size:	The number of visitors in the queue before saving the stats to the DB. Default is 10. Minimum size shouldn’t be under 5

Usage

To track the visitors on your entire application, just edit your ApplicationController(application.rb):

  class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
    include Sitealizer
    before_filter :use_sitealizer
  end

Or to track specific controllers:

  class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
    include Sitealizer
  end

  class MyController < ApplicationController
    before_filter :use_sitealizer
  end

Viewing the stats

To view your stats just add "/sitealizer" to your main url:

  http://www.example.com/sitealizer

Live Demo

www.nottr.com

Using Sitealizer?

I'd like to include your site on the list below. Please send me an email (tjackiw at gmail dot com) with your site's url.

Getting help

You can always send me an email (tjackiw at gmail dot com) if you have any questions.

Bugs/Patches

Please report the bugs you find by opening tickets here

Support this project

Special Thanks to:

RubyForge (www.rubyforge.org)

Other plugins by the Author:

acts_as_solr (acts-as-solr.rubyforge.org)

Release Information

Released under the MIT license.

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