Trying to create a counter for a link being clicked

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hi

im trying to create a counter for each time a link is clicked, but new links can be created, so somehow i need it a count value to be linked to each link, so that only that the clicked countre increments by 1.

suppose i have

link1 link2 link3

i would like if link1 had been clicked 4 times, it to refer to link1,4 if a new link was created, then it begins at 0

similarly if a link is created the counter is removed from the hash.

i presume this may require a hash. ive been hacking down that road, but not getting very far.

my controller:

def new

    @testrun.start_date = DateTime.now     @testrun.count = $counter

     $counter += 1 end

this increments a counter, but will simply increment one count for all links.

any help would be really appreciated!

thanks in advance.