https://github.com/doorkeeper/garails

Google Analytics for Rails
https://github.com/doorkeeper/garails

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Google Analytics for Rails

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/doorkeeper/garails
• Owner: doorkeeper
• License: mit
• Fork: true (mreinsch/garails)
• Created: 2011-04-12T01:24:47.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-08-13T06:14:33.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-16T04:55:13.493Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: Ruby
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• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.rdoc
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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== Google Analytics for Rails

Complete package to use google analytics in your rails application. It supports recording to google analytics:

* for normal web browsers (javascript)

* for mobile handsets (gif)

* programmatically (events)

== Installation

Add to your Gemfile:

  gem 'garails'

and run 'bundle install'.

Then create a config/initializers/garails.rb with the following content:

  Garails.ga_account = 'UA-12345678-9'

== Usage

=== for normal web browsers

Add to your layout (usually app/views/layouts/application.html.erb) in the head section:

  

    

      My App

      ...

      <%= google_analytics_tracking_javascript %>

    

    

    ...

=== for mobile handsets (non-Javascript)

In your layout for mobile handsets without Javascript support, add at the very bottom of the body the following:

  <%= utm_tag %>

=== programmatically

In your view or controller you can record events by using:

  ga_event(category, action, label, value)

See http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerGuide.html for details. label and value are optional.