Tracking Users in a Rails App

Hey everyone,

I'm looking to track what my users do in my Rails app. I know that for pageviews, etc. there's Google Analytics, and that's fine, but I'm looking to implement a more robust, user specific way to know what users are doing on the site. It has several social features, and I want to log which users visit which pages, how many times, etc., and use that data to display more relevant information to them, show what items are the most popular, etc.

Does anyone have any general tips about how to best do this? I'm somewhat worried about hitting the DB with a write on every request...

Thanks,

Avishai

have a look at acts as activity logged

pls read this message

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/9d880bf4603b33a0/2aac898b7e228462

I hope you can help me figure out how to install it :slight_smile: