Hey Dan, Why don't you pass an unique ID parameter in each link (either GET or POST) and use this in a before_filter in the application controller? The filter would just increment the count for that ID in a separate table. This is a general design that would work for anything. Later you can use this information with some sort of mapping that says what each ID means (or just put a title for each ID in the table). Something like:
== Links <a href="http://mysite.com?ID=1";>Link 1</a> == application.rb before_filter :inc_link_count def inc_link_count li = Link.find(params[:ID]) li.count++ li.save end Cheers, Sazima On Sep 25, 7:45 pm, andres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 13:52 -0700, Dan Paul wrote: > > Thanks for the response, sorry I'm totally new to this any way you can > > elaborate or show example? Any help would be greatly appreciated, > > thanks in advance > > > On Sep 25, 11:53 am, andres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 11:35 -0700, Dan Paul wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > So I am trying to simply track the number of hits a link has received > > > > and display that number on the site so other users can see which links > > > > are more popular. So once the link is clicked on it adds a +1 value to > > > > the hits column in the database and then redirects the person to the > > > > url that the link is supposed to go to. So far this is what I have. > > > > > I have a tutorials table in my database and a column for hits and a > > > > column for url. > > > > > ** tutorials_controller.rb ** > > > > > def update_hits_count > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] :hits, params[:count].size + 1 > > > > if @tutorial.save > > > > redirect_to url_for(@tutorial.url) > > > > end > > > > end > > > > modify the method so it suits any controller, > > > like in self.update_attribute > > > add the method to application_controller > > > whenever you want to add a hit you call it, > > > like in > > > def index > > > update_hits_count > > > end > > it really depends on what you want to track > hits on a single controller/action (probably writing on a file) or in > many > more likely you'll need a tracking model "hits" > that has something like > controller :string > action :string > hits :integer > > define a addhit method on the model > self.hits = self.hits +1 > > create a method in application controller > def update_hit_counts > @hit.find(:first, :controller => controller, :method => method) > @hit.addhit > > (you can use the current method and controller form rails environmental > variables) > > then when you want to register a hit > inside the method you call > update_hit_counts > > (ads one query and one write per request) > > > > > > > > > ** view/tutorials/show.html.erb ** > > > > > <% for tutorial in @tutorials %> > > > > <%=link_to tutorial.title, {:action => 'update_hits_count', :count > > > > => tutorial.hits} %> > > > > <% end %> > > > > > That is what I have so far and when you click on the link the hits > > > > column in the tutorials table just gets set to null and it does not > > > > redirect them to the proper url. Any help would be greatly > > > > appreciated. Thanks in advance. > > > > -- > > > > smime.p7s > > > 7KViewDownload > > > > > -- > Andres Paglayan > CTO, StoneSoup LLC > Ph: 505 629-4344 > Mb: 505 690-2871 > FWD: 65-5587 > Testi. Codi. Vinci. > > smime.p7s > 7KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
