Notes from a Messy Desk

Hi. Looks like just the thing, but unfortunately it's keeling over at startup for me :0((. I'm using rails 1.2.3 and it does the same thing in either production of development mode ...

** Starting Rails with development environment...
Exiting
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:266:in load_missing_constant': uninitialized constant Rubaidh (NameError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:452:inconst_missing'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:464:in const_missing'
from /Users/attila/src/trunk/config/environment.rb:115
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:ingem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in require'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:inrequire'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in new_constants_in'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:495:inrequire'
... 21 levels...
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.3/lib/commands/server.rb:39
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in gem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:inrequire'
from script/server:3

Any ideas ?. Would be nice to use if I can get past this little hickup :0).

Thanks.

Hi,
How can I test google analytics at the development stage ? In Rubaidh::GoogleAnalytics.domain_name = 'example.com', what should be the domain name in the development environment ?

Is there any chance of this plugin being update to reflect the recent code changes to the GA code snippets?

As reported here: http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/01/google-analytics-ga-js.html

Nice work! I'd be interested in seeing a GA plugin that could handle goals too. Like a snippet you could add to a controller that was part of a goal.

Hi,

I've took the liberty to modify your plugin so that it will also track ajax calls and check the content type of the response.

Here it is:

module Rubaidh # :nodoc:
module GoogleAnalyticsMixin
def google_analytics_code(request = nil, headers = nil, flash = nil)
return unless GoogleAnalytics.enabled?
GoogleAnalytics.google_analytics_code(request, headers, flash)
end

# An after_filter to automatically add the analytics code.
def add_google_analytics_code
  if response.body.index("</body>")
    code = google_analytics_code(request)
    response.body.gsub! '</body>', code + '</body>' if response.body.respond_to?(:gsub!) && !code.nil?
  elsif response.body.is_a? String # if an Ajax call there won't be a body tag
    code = google_analytics_code(request, headers, flash)
    response.body << code unless code.nil?
  end
end
# A before_filter to automatically store the last accessed url in a cookie
# so it can be retrieved form JavaScript to send it back to google when an
# Ajax call was made.
def add_google_analytics_url
  options = { :controller => self.controller_name(), :action => self.action_name(), :only_path => true }.merge(params)
  flash[:urchin] = "\"#{url_for(options)}\""
end

end

class GoogleAnalytics
# Specify the Google Analytics ID for this web site. This can be found
# as the value of +_uacct+ in the Javascript excerpt
@@tracker_id = nil
cattr_accessor :tracker_id

# Specify a different domain name from the default.  You'll want to use
# this if you have several subdomains that you want to combine into
# one report.  See the Google Analytics documentation for more
# information.
@@domain_name = nil
cattr_accessor :domain_name
# I can't see why you'd want to do this, but you can always change the
# analytics URL.
@@analytics_url = 'http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js'
cattr_accessor :analytics_url
# I can't see why you'd want to do this, but you can always change the
# analytics URL (ssl version).
@@analytics_ssl_url = 'https://ssl.google-analytics.com/urchin.js'
cattr_accessor :analytics_ssl_url
# The environments in which to enable the Google Analytics code.  Defaults
# to 'production' only.
@@environments = ['development','test','production']
cattr_accessor :environments
# Return true if the Google Analytics system is enabled and configured
# correctly.
def self.enabled?
  (environments.include?(RAILS_ENV) and
    not tracker_id.blank? and
    not analytics_url.blank?)
end
def self.google_analytics_code(request = nil, headers = nil, flash = nil)
  extra_code = domain_name.blank? ? nil : "_udn = \"#{domain_name}\";\n"
  url = (not request.blank? and request.ssl?) ? analytics_ssl_url : analytics_url
  path = "'#{path}'" unless path.nil?
  code = "try {\n_uacct = \"#{tracker_id}\";\n#{extra_code}urchinTracker(#{flash ? flash[:urchin] : nil});}\ncatch(e) {}"
  # OK, I'm not very bright -- I tried to turn this into a partial and
  # failed miserably!  So it'll have to live here for now.
  if headers && headers["Content-Type"].to_s.index("javascript")
    # if content is javascript only (e.g. RJS), just append the javascript code without the html tags
    return code
  elsif headers.nil? || (headers["Content-Type"].nil? || headers["Content-Type"].to_s === "text/html")
    # if content is blank or html, append the javascript code with the html tags
    return <<-HTML
    <script src="#{url}" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    //<![CDATA[
    #{code}
    //]]>
    </script>
    HTML
  end
end

end
end

Hi,

This url is not working. I am not able to download this plugin.

Thanks & Regards
Ganesh Mohan

Hi,

This url is not working. I am not able to download this plugin.

I wrote a small script for myself a while ago that does something like this. Feel free to check it out. http://github.com/djanowski/google_services

Can I add a read-only user to my analytics profile via RoR?

Regards

Ajit