I was wondering what are the options for doing site analytics with a ruby on rails application ? I haven't seen any solutions specifically targeted towards rails - more towards apache type web servers. I don't want to use the google analytics, I'd like to have the logging/analyis all local. After a quick look at wiki's list of web analytics software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_analytics_software, I can't see anything that I can see how to incorporate into my rails/ruby app.
wouldn't it be cool if there was a way to bump an old question for more input? This is clearly a dupe, and the original question has an accepted answer, yet there is a LOT more to be said on this topic.
Walt Gordon Jones
2009-05-17 06:27:30
A:
Most people deploy rails applications behind Apache or other web servers, because Rails applications can be set up to allow those web servers to quickly and efficiently serve static assets and cached pages. This also means that we can use the same log analysis tools we've always used like Analog, AWStats, etc.
Or we can just punt and use google analytics. I like row logs though :)
Hope that helps!
Brian Hogan
2009-05-16 01:51:07
Thanks - this really pointed me in the right direction. I'm deploying rails behind apache with the passenger/mod_rails, and looks like I'll be able to use traditional log analysis tools as you suggested.
Mingus
2009-06-10 03:43:39