ReferrerTracker

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This plugin tracks the source of the traffic for you and also tracks the conversations happening in your rails project.

Example

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In referrer_tracker.yml file in cofig directory -

track1:
  actions: "home#index home#dashboard"  #These actions will be tracked - with first as landingpage and second as dashboard page.
  conversion: true #if set to true, this will track the conversions.
  conversion_rate: true #if set to true, this will also save landingpage hits, based on which conversion_rate can be calculated.
  referreral_parameter: sr # on successfull converstion it will credit ?sr= parameter as source. If left null, credit will be given to url, the user came from.

Installation

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Install the gem as -

gem install referrer_tracker

Then run the migrations using -

rake db:migrate:rt_setup

This way, it will create a table in your database named - referrer_track.

Then add a referrer_tracker.yml file inside the config directory and add the configuration as shown in above example.

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