page views counter

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Hi all,

I've made a really simple page views counter.

def show   @post = Post.find......   addcount = @post.views += 1   @post.update_attribute "views", addcount end

Its working fine, but if someone hold the F5 key, it keeps counting and counting. Which is not a really good. Is there a way how to force the counter to not keep counting while someone is holding the F5 key?

THX P.

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I've made a really simple page views counter.

def show @post = Post.find...... addcount = @post.views += 1 @post.update_attribute "views", addcount

You don't need the extra variable.

@post.update_attribute 'views', @post.views + 1

end

Its working fine, but if someone hold the F5 key, it keeps counting and counting. Which is not a really good. Is there a way how to force the counter to not keep counting while someone is holding the F5 key?

Store their IP address and a timestamp and then don't count more views from that same IP for a while.

For the IP address use request.env[ 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR' ] if your Rails app is behind a proxy, or request.env[ 'REMOTE_ADDR' ] if it's not.