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Simple way to add Google analytics, universal analytics, uservoice to your rails app
TheTracker
A Gem to help you add tracker components to your application. Instead of having to write javascript code to add this trackers you can use plain pure ruby.
Currently this components are supported:
Google Analytics
Google Universal Analytics
Google Tag Mangaer
Uservoice
Ad Form
Google Ad Services
Kenshoo Conversion Pixel
Relevant Traffic Conversion Pixel
YD RTB Pixel
Smart 4 Ads
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'the_tracker'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install the_tracker
Usage
Create a file in config/initializers/tracker.rb
Add all the trackers you need
TheTracker::Tracker.config do |tmf|
tmf.add TheTracker::Trackers::Uservoice.new('YOUR_KEY', {:forum_id => 123, :tab_label => 'Say Hi!'})
tmf.add TheTracker::Trackers::GAnalytics.new(:id => 'UA-1234123-99')
end
In your views add
<header>
<%= header_tracking_code.html_safe %>
</header>
If the tracker needs to add code into the body:
<body>
<%= body_top_tracking_code.html_safe %>
... your page html ...
<%= body_bottom_tracking_code.html_safe %>
</body>
And that's all, the tracking code will be added automatically
Sometimes you only want to track certain pages:
For instance, this example will show the Google Analytics code only if some_condition evaluates to true
<header>
<% TheTracker::Tracker.instance.trackers[:ganalytics].active = some_condition %>
<%= header_tracking_code.html_safe %>
</header>
You can add a tracking code on a single page:
TheTracker::Tracker.config do |tmf|
tmf.add_once TheTracker::Trackers::Uservoice.new('YOUR_KEY', {:forum_id => 123, :tab_label => 'Say Hi and disappear!'})
end
For more examples please visit how to use it
Documentation
Read the documentation to find details about how to implement each pixel available.
Author
Created by Jorge Alvarez
@jorgealvarez
I would like to thanks to the Sage One team for their support in the development of this gem
Contributing
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request
License
The Tracker is released under the MIT License.
Log
Version 1.4.0
Smart 4 Ads support
Universal analytics require libraries for demographic reports and enhanced link attribution
Version 1.3.1
Fixed gem generation problem
Version 1.3.0
YD RTB support
Version 1.2.3
Fixed bug with namespace
Version 1.2.2
Support for more than one Universal analytics account
Version 1.2.1
Support for userId in Universal analytics
Version 1.2.0
Added Universal analytics
Version 1.1.2
Added Relevant Traffic conversion pixel support
Version 1.0.0
Everything is stable so time to bump version to 1.0.0
Added Kenshoo conversion pixel support
Version 0.5.0
Now you can add a tracker that will be displayed only once and removed from subsequent requests.
Version 0.4.6
Fixed bug that keeped information about transactions on each page load. Now transaction information is displayed only once.
FAQs
Unknown package
We found that the_tracker demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 30 May 2014
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