[Rails] Re: how to keep track of popular items

2009-01-12 Thread Sazima
Popular in terms of viewing or selling? Why don't you keep a counter in the DB? Cheers, Sazima On Jan 11, 10:00 pm, Mohammad Abed rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net wrote: I have a site which is basically a catalog of product about 30,000.00 products. What do you think is the best (in terms of

[Rails] Re: how to keep track of popular items

2009-01-12 Thread Robert Walker
Mohammad Abed wrote: I'm thinking of creating a model called 'product_view' which has product_id view_counter, and updating this table in product#show. This sounds like a fine plan, but does it provide any advantage over simply adding a view_count attribute to your product model? In either

[Rails] Re: how to keep track of popular items

2009-01-11 Thread James Englert
You could just keep it in memory if accuracy isn't very important. On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Mohammad Abed rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net wrote: I have a site which is basically a catalog of product about 30,000.00 products. What do you think is the best (in terms of performance)

[Rails] Re: how to keep track of popular items

2009-01-11 Thread mabed
I think I might look into this http://playtype.net/past/2008/2/6/starling_and_asynchrous_tasks_in_ruby_on_rails/ On Jan 11, 7:39 pm, James Englert englert.ja...@gmail.com wrote: You could just keep it in memory if accuracy isn't very important. On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Mohammad