ahoy_captain

A full-featured, mountable analytics dashboard for your Rails app, powered by the Ahoy gem.

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AhoyCaptain

A full-featured, mountable analytics dashboard for your Rails app, shamelessly inspired by Plausible Analytics, powered by the Ahoy gem.

Notice

Currently requires using PG and a JSONB column for your data.

Installation

1. Do the bundle

Drop it in:

$ bundle add ahoy_captain

2. Install it

$ rails g ahoy_captain:install

3. Make sure your events are setup correctly

AhoyCaptain doesn’t do any tracking for you; it merely provides a dashboard for your data from the Ahoy gem.

By default, AhoyCaptain assumes you’re tracking controller and action in your Ahoy::Event properties, and a page view event is named $view. See this section for more information: https://github.com/ankane/ahoy#events

For a quick sanity check:

AhoyCaptain.event.where(name: AhoyCaptain.config.event[:view_name]).count
AhoyCaptain.event.with_routes.count

This can be fully-customized. See the initializer config/initializers/ahoy_captain.rb for more.

4. Star this repo

No, seriously, I need all the internet clout I can get.

5. Analyze your nightmares

If you have a large dataset (> 1GB) you probably want some indexes. rails g ahoy_captain:migration

Features

  • Top sources
  • Top pages, landing pages, and exit pages
  • UTM reporting
  • Top locations, by countries, regions, and cities
  • Top devices, by browser, OS, and device type
  • Goal tracking
  • Funnels
  • Filter by:
    • Page
    • Location
    • Device type
    • OS
    • UTM tags
    • Goal
    • Event Property
  • CSV exports
  • Date comparison

Coming soon ™️

  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

Contributors

This was built during the Rails Hackathon in July 2023 with afogel and dnoetz.

Contributions

Do your worst; please and thank you in advance! 😃

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.