Note that writing to the db every time something on your site is viewed can
really limit your capacity and scale and hasten the day when you'll need to
think about multi-master configuration. So unless you're using something
like amazon SimpleDB, which scales for you, it might be better to figure out
a better way to track view counting (e.g. central log server, cron job to
aggregate and update db?).
m
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Dan Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
> > > @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.
> >
> > > >
> > --
> >
> > smime.p7s
> > 7KViewDownload
>
> >
>
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