Is there a plugin for this or a gem that I can use. I was thinking about just writing it to a table when a view was called in the controller. Is this the best way? I see stackoverflow has this functionality how do they do it?
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Is there a plugin for this or a gem that I can use. I was thinking about just writing it to a table when a view was called in the controller. Is this the best way? I see stackoverflow has this functionality how do they do it?
Google Analytics – Let Google or some other third-party analytics provider handle it for you for free. I don’t think you want to do file writes on every page load – potentially costly. Another option is to store the information in memory and write to the database periodically instead of on every page load.
[EDIT] This is an interesting question. I asked for help on this issue of what’s more efficient – db writes vs file writes – there’s some good feedback there too.