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Tracking Visits with Piwik Analytics in Rails

Tracking Visits with Piwik Analytics in Rails

Piwik [http://piwik.org] is an open source web analytics tool written in PHP. With the first release in 2007 it quickly gained popularity as it is easy to install and organizations and individuals have complete control over the tracked data and not a third party (like Google). Right now

Introducing Turbolinks for Rails 4.0

Introducing Turbolinks for Rails 4.0

David Heinemeier Hansson [http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/], creator of Ruby on Rails, recently announced on Twitter [https://twitter.com/dhh/status/251024691337244672] that a feature called Turbolinks will ship as default-on in the Gemfile of Ruby on Rails 4.0. Turbolinks is already [https://twitter.com/dhh/status/251111584317972480] powering

Using Neo4j with Rails 3.2

Using Neo4j with Rails 3.2

Neo4j is a NoSQL graph database written in Java. This means that you work with nodes and relationships rather than fixed tables with a schema. Nodes can easily be mapped to Ruby object and relationships seen as references to other objects. This article will show how to utilize Neo4j to

Static pages with High Voltage

Static pages with High Voltage

Dealing with static pages in Rails will almost always result in creating a special controller with empty actions that just render out some template. This task is so common that it is perfect to extract it out into a Rails engine. ThoughtBot [http://robots.thoughtbot.com/], the company behind the