Comments on: Google Analytics and Rails in 60 Seconds

By: admin

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:15:56 +0000

Partial’s would also work.

My solution for never having my own visits being tracked by Google analytics has always been to add an entry to my /etc/hosts file:

—-
127.0.0.1 http://www.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
—-

That way I don’t need to worry about writing different code for different environments. This also has the advantage that my own visit’s to a production site are never recorded either. For new sites that can be statistically significant in the beginning. Sorry, I should have mentioned I do that.

By: Jaime Iniesta

Jaime Iniesta — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:34:37 +0000

You can also save the analytics html code on a partial, for instance on ‘app/views/shared/_analytics.html.erb’ and include it on the layouts that use it like:

<%= render :partial => ’shared/analytics’ %>

Also, you should only include the analytics code on the production environment, so what I prefer to do is this:

<%= render :partial => ’shared/analytics’ if RAILS_ENV == ‘production’ %>

By: David Backeus

David Backeus — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:27:49 +0000

I would use a partial inside the layouts directory for this. No reason to pollute the application_helper since there is no actual logic to it. And html in strings doesn’t look very nice in my opinion.