event_logger

EventLogger

EventLogger allows you to log events from anywhere in you Rails appliaction. Once logged these events can be used to run statistics on the types of events logged. Each event can store a seralized ruby object so you have access to detailed information regarding your event.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'event_logger'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Generate the event_logs table migration

$ rake g event_logger

Run the migration

$ rake db:migrate

Usage

All controllers have access to the log_event method. This method takes two arguments

1. event (string)
2. object (ruby object)

Anytime you wish to track an event use this method. For example if we want to track failed user signups we would do this

class RegistrationsController < ApplicationController
  def create
    ...
    log_event('user_signup_failed', current_user)
    ...
  end
end

This will later allow us to run analytics on these events. If we want to know the number of failed signups we just need to ask

EventLogger::EventLog.where(:event => 'user_signup_failed').count

We also have full acess to the objects within the event

event = EventLogger::EventLog.where(:event => 'user_signup_failed').last
event.object
=> #<User first_name: "Ryan", last_name: "Howard">
event.object.first_name
=> "Ryan"

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request