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 > @tutorial.update_attribute :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
>
> ** 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.
>
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