Rails - Jun 2009 - best way to access audio downloads / audio listen statistics

All,

I''ve got a rails application that allows people to publish audio files.
The
files are stored on Amazon S3.

I would like to publish statistics on the number of listens ... and have
those statistics close to real time.

I''m wondering if I should use a URL redirect WITHIN rails to redirect a
RAILS URL to an S3 audio URL ... then I could save the hit to the database
(through RAILS) ... or I could just scour the log files (I''d need to
scour
both S3 log files and Rails log files).

Scouring the log files is going to be messy ... but having a URL redirect
(within RAILS) that logs the hit is going to be perhaps expensive ...

.... does anyone have any ideas/thoughts/recommendations.

Etienne

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e deleflie wrote:
> All,
> 
> I''ve got a rails application that allows people to publish audio
files.
> The
> files are stored on Amazon S3.
> 
> I would like to publish statistics on the number of listens ... and have
> those statistics close to real time.
> 
> I''m wondering if I should use a URL redirect WITHIN rails to
redirect a
> RAILS URL to an S3 audio URL ... then I could save the hit to the 
> database
> (through RAILS) ... or I could just scour the log files (I''d need
to
> scour
> both S3 log files and Rails log files).
> 
> Scouring the log files is going to be messy ... but having a URL 
> redirect
> (within RAILS) that logs the hit is going to be perhaps expensive ...
> 
> .... does anyone have any ideas/thoughts/recommendations.
> 
> Etienne
Directing to an action on your app first would be much easier than 
logging.

Depending on how much info you want you could either create a new model 
called LinkClick and create a new record each time a link is clicked. 
This way you could store dates and times, ip_addresses etc. - info that 
may be useful in future if not atm.

Otherwise, id just add an extra column the table you use for your audio 
files called clicks, default it to 0 and create a model method called 
add_click.

def add_click
  increment clicks
end

Then you simply have to call add_click from your controller before 
redirecting to amazon.

Gavin

http://handyrailstips.com

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