Question

We have an app with an extensive admin section. We got a little trigger happy with features (as you do) and are looking for some quick and easy way to monitor ‘who uses what’.

Ideally a simple gem that will allow us to track controller/actions on a per user basis to build up a picture of the features that are used and those that are not.

Anything out there that you’d recommend..

Thanks

Dom

Answer 1

I don’t know that there’s a popular gem or plugin for this; in the past, I’ve implemented this sort of auditing as a before_filter in ApplicationController:

from memory:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base   before_filter :audit_events   # ...    protected   def audit_events     local_params = params.clone     controller = local_params.delete(:controller)     action = local_params.delete(:action)     Audit.create(       :user => current_user,        :controller => controller,        :action => action,        :params => local_params     )   end end 

This assumes that you’re using something like restful_authentication to get current user, of course.

EDIT: Depending on how your associations are set up, you’d do even better to replace the Audit.create bit with this:

current_user.audits.create({   :controller => controller,   :action => action,   :params => local_params }) 

Scoping creations via ActiveRecord assoiations == best practice