PeteSalty wrote:

> we're trying to add a feature where we log a view each time a user
> looks at a particular item (it's being logged as a database record
> against the item id).
> Problem is, if that user refreshes the page we don't want it to
> register as another view. Users may or may not be logged in when
> viewing items so we can't log it against the user id.

Stash its id in the session:

  session[:viewed] ||= {}
  unless session[:viewed][id]
    add_one_eyeball(id)
    session[:viewed][id] = true
  end

There might be a tighter way to do that...


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