Tracking Metrics with Ahoy and Blazer Discussion
Masud Rana Hossain
ruby rails
great video, thank for sharing it !
Ahoy is a wonderfull gem when it comes to track !
I also use Ahoy::Event to track visit duration and sometimes to create heatmap of my page :p
more information if you want : http://www.tuto-ruby-gratui...
this is my free rails tutorial, it's in french but code is understandable :p
application.js
import ahoy from "ahoy.js";
I haven't actually used it myself but you could try the Geocoder Gem and which will take an address and give you coordinates with Geocoder.coordinates(location)
Hey, Chris! It looks like a lot has changed with ahoy in the past two years. Any way you could update this?
I don't think a whole lot has changed. They have instructions for using it with Webpacker now, but it seems mostly the same to me. Are you talking about anything specific?
No, it turns out I have a Rails 5 app that uses Webpacker, and what I implemented was apparently causing confusion in my app. I took the Webpacker stuff out and it works fine now. Thanks, anyway!
Hey Chris, does ahoy_matey only integrate with the devise User model? My colleague and I have been attempting to integrate it with another model called Product -- ignoring the User model altogether. Changing t.references :user to t.references :product.
Our app does not have user auth, and we just want to track visits and events in our Product model.
Thanks,
Yeah, should be able to set it up without Users. That's what guests are anyways, they don't have a User. You can always ask on the GitHub issues for it and get tips from the author. 👍
Does anybody have any examples of using Ahoy::Events in Blazer?? It seems the two should marry nicely, but I'm struggling to find any examples.
Blazer + Ahoy::Visits is easy, all the data points are proper fields... but with Ahoy::Events each useful piece of data is within Json and so Blazer won't parse it... (do I need to change field to JsonB??)
I want to track playback and video performance analytics (easy to do in Ahoy) and then display some of it in Blazer. But I can't work out how to delve into the properties of an Event/Visit?? Any clues?
Example: I can search by an event like "User Pressed Play" but I want to know [event].video_id or [event].current_playback_time in Blazer... then I can do average time played, number of playbacks per user, etc.
TIA
When I installed Ahoy, I just changed the migration to have the data type be JSONB and haven't experienced any issues.
From there, you could query in Blazer using regular SQL (perhaps like):
SELECT CAST((properties->>'video_id') AS INTEGER)
FROM ahoy_events
WHERE ahoy_events.name = 'User Pressed Play'
AND ahoy_events.time >= '2020-12-01 00:00:00';
This assumes that you have a field called 'video_id' in your properties hash. Basically we're fetching the string value from JSONB and then casting it to an intger. You could also join on that, potentially, like:
SELECT ahoy_events.*, videos.*
FROM ahoy_events
JOIN videos ON videos.id = CAST((properties->>'video_id') AS INTEGER)
WHERE ahoy_events.name = 'User Pressed Play'
AND ahoy_events.time >= '2020-12-01 00:00:00';
I hope this gives you some ideas. If you have something else in mind, let me know, maybe I can assist further.
Anyone using Ahoy on rails 7? Server side is working fine but getting errors on client side that "ahoy is not defined"
gem file
gem "ahoy_matey"
models/ahoy/event.rb
class Ahoy::Event < ApplicationRecord
include Ahoy::QueryMethods
self.table_name = "ahoy_events"
belongs_to :visit
belongs_to :user, optional: true
end
models/ahoy/event.rb
class Ahoy::Visit < ApplicationRecord
self.table_name = "ahoy_visits"
has_many :events, class_name: "Ahoy::Event"
belongs_to :user, optional: true
end
console output
player.js:23 Uncaught ReferenceError: ahoy is not defined
at togglePlay (player.js:23:7)
at HTMLAnchorElement.<anonymous> (player.js:14:9)
player.js
ahoy.track("Played Audio", audio_detail)
config/initializers/ahoy.rb
class Ahoy::Store < Ahoy::DatabaseStore
Ahoy.api = true
Ahoy.geocode = false
end
Typing ahoy.track("test") directly in console also return the same error.
Any help/thoughts?
Yeah, I did. I’m traveling but can dig up the code (hopefully) in the next 24 hours or so. I’ll post here and let you know. If I remember correctly my issue was not using the correct path for the import.
Awesome - thanks! I'm doing a simple:
import ahoy from "ahoy.js" per the docs.....server side is working, but worried about bots - though I suppose I could wrap in a bot check using another gem?
Hey, sorry for the delay on this. I got sidetracked. Just pulled up the code and confirmed I have the Ahoy js event tracking working. I'm using the jumpstart pro template, Rails 7.0.4, ruby 3.1.2p20.
Here's some relevant code in case you have not found a working solution.
Calling Ahoy.js from inside stimulus controller.
import { Controller } from "@hotwired/stimulus"
import { Turbo } from "@hotwired/turbo-rails"
import ahoy from "ahoy.js";
....
ahoy.track("event_name", { foo_event_name: 'foo'})
gem file
gem "ahoy_matey"
initializers/ahoy.rb
class Ahoy::Store < Ahoy::DatabaseStore
end
# set to true for JavaScript tracking
Ahoy.api = true
Ahoy.geocode = false
Happy to share whatever else might be helpful and I'll try to be more responsive. Also, if you have not checked out the GoRails discord you should. I've been able to get lots of good support for this type of stuff there.
I'm looking to track downloads of mp3 files that are stored using ActiveStorage with Ahoy and data visualized with Blazer. Anyone got any resources for how to do this tracking of ActiveStorage with Ahoy?