ActsAsViewable is plugin that allows you to track page and asset views in your Rails application. For example, you can use it to track how many times a page is visited or how many times a particular image is viewed.

Trac: http://trac.intridea.com/trac/public/wiki/ActsAsViewable Subversion repository: http://svn.intridea.com/svn/public/acts_as_viewable

Installation:

  script/plugin install http://svn.intridea.com/svn/public/acts_as_viewable

OR

  cd vendor/plugins  svn co http://svn.intridea.com/svn/public/acts_as_viewable

Create the tables where views will be tracked:

  class CreateViewings  0        t.column :created_at,     :datetime, :null => false        t.column :updated_at,     :datetime      end    end      def self.down      drop_table :viewings    end  end

Set the objects you want to track views for:

class SomeAsset

Now you can increment views for these objects wherever you need to. For example in the show action of our SomeAssetController:

class SomeAssetController

To get the number of views:

  @some_asset.views