RailStat - creates a real-time web site statistics system

This generator creates a real-time web site statistics system.

Features:

• Page views paths on each session
• Number of total hits / unique hits
• Operating system and browser
• Countries and languages
• Referrers and search strings
• Flash / JavaVM / Javascript / ScreenWidth / ColorDepth

EXAMPLE

./script/generate rail_stat

This will generate controller, models, helper, views, db scripts, images and stylesheets needed for the web statistics system.

Installation

1. Create database

2. Create the database schema using rake db:migrate

3. Download the IP-to-Country database from http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/ :

   wget http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/downloads/ip-to-country.csv.zip

   unzip ip-to-country.csv.zip

4. Copy ip-to-country.csv in db/ directory

5. Upload the data using ip-to-country.mysql.sql:

   mysql -u user dbname < ip-to-country.mysql.sql

6. Add your web site name at the end of config/environment.rb (assign it to a constant SITE_NAME)

Example: SITE_NAME = 'www.mydomain.com'

Notes: Steps 3 - 5 are optional. If you don't want to download ip-to-country database the system will work but the visitor country will not be tracked.