Working With Rails

Acts As Viewable

::: Overview

ActsAsViewable is plugin that allows you to track page and asset views.

::: Usage

Install the plugin:

script/plugin install http://svn.intridea.com/svn/public/acts_as_viewable

OR

cd vendor/plugins svn co http://svn.intridea.com/svn/public/acts_as_viewable

Create the tables where views will be tracked:

class CreateViewings < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up create_table :viewings do |t| t.column :viewable_type, :string t.column :viewable_id, :integer t.column :views, :integer, :default => 0 t.column :created_at, :datetime, :null => false t.column :updated_at, :datetime end end end

def self.down
  drop_table :viewings
end

Set the objects you want to track views for:

class SomeAsset < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_viewable end

Now you can increment views for these objects wherever you need to. For example in the show action of our SomeAssetController:

class SomeAssetController < ApplicationController def show @some_asset = SomeAsset.find(params[:id]) @some_asset.increment_views end end

To get the number of views:

@some_asset.views

::: Contact

Dave Naffis <dave>

Intridea: http://www.intridea.com Intridea Open Source Projects: http://trac.intridea.com/trac/public

NOTE: This description has been extracted from the Plugin README and so the formatting may need updating to make browser friendly