Google analytics with rails 4

Question

I am having a bit of difficulty implementing google analytics to my rails 4 project. I included the tracking code to the bottom of my layouts file and have even tried to remove turbolinks as suggested here however i google is still unable to detect this tracking cookie. Any ideas ?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18632644/google-analytics-with-rails-4

Answer 1

I set up Google Analytics a few days before..

1.) The Turbolink Workaround

With Turbolinks, the Google Analytics JavaScript library is not sufficient to record a page visit for every page update.

The workaround should be loaded on every page and it can be included as an application-wide asset (it will load before Turbolinks).

Add the file app/assets/javascripts/analytics.js.coffee to include the Turbolinks workaround:

app/assets/javascripts/analytics.js

// Coffee
$(document).on 'page:change', ->
 if window._gaq?
  _gaq.push ['_trackPageview']
 else if window.pageTracker?
  pageTracker._trackPageview()

// Javascript
$(document).on('page:change', function() {
 if (window._gaq != null) {
  return _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
 } else if (window.pageTracker != null) {
  return pageTracker._trackPageview();
 }
});

2.) Create a Footer Partial

Just create a a Partial into app/views/layouts -> _footer.html.erb

Then Call your Partial on your application.html.erb -> <%= render 'layouts/footer' %>

Insert into your Footer the Analytics Track Code:

<script>
  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
  })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

  ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXX-XX', 'herokuapp.com');
  ga('send', 'pageview');

</script>

You must replace UA-XXXXXXX-XX with your tracking ID, and herokuapp.com with your Domain if you have any.