how do implement a rails popularity/trending algorithm
I'm making a web app and I want to sort through a model based on popularity/trendiness, kind of like reddit/hacker news.
I want to determine the popularity based on the count of comments, likes, and impression divided by the creation date from the current world time, or some better algortihm.
How would I implement that
Hey Samuel, I haven't done this recently, but it's a fun one that I should definitely do a screencast on sometime.
Check out this post. He links to a couple other related posts that are worth reading and implements a SQL query to do ranking. You can probably do something similar to this: http://www.akitaonrails.com/2016/10/31/ruby-on-rails-implementation-of-a-proper-ranking-popularity-system
If you haven't seen it already, check out the reddit "hot" algorithm
https://gist.github.com/nanosplit/db42e507c5d1d984b664868db10a3669
There's also a thread I found on reddit that talks about it and helps explain what it's doing: