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Anyone have experience (or plugins) available for pulling web analytics into the rails environment? Our marketing folks want to combine the page view data together with our registration/activity info, not too different than advocated here: http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/webapps/how-to-measure-the-success- of-your-web-app We''re using Apache 2/mongrel. Thanks.

Rails appends query strings to ressource files for intelligent browser caching (only updating browser cache when files get channged) But this article ( http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/webapps/serving-javascript-fast ) says the following: At this point, you might ask why we don''t just add a query string to the end of the resource - /css/main.css?v=4. According the letter of the HTTP caching specification, user agents should *never* cache URLs with query str...

...ggested by Henderson? That is, with whatever versioning number used appended to the file during path generation. and that number stripped off again when the file is requested. Other ideas? Thanks, Chris [1] http://hypsometry.com/blog/on-browser-caching-asset-timestamping-and-rails [2] http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/webapps/serving-javascript-fast [3] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html -- Chris Boone, Hypsometry http://hypsometry.com/ Web Application Design & Development

After reading Cal Henderson''s article on Vitamin Serving Javascript Fast<http://synthesis.sbecker.net/articles/2006/06/03/www.thinkvitamin.com/features/webapps/serving-javascript-fast>I was immediately inspired to create a plugin to easily facilitate this in Ruby on Rails. I whipped up most of it right then, and finally got around to polishing it for release today. Told myself I wasn''t allowed to eat today until I finishe...

What''s the easiest or best way to determine the screen size from within a controller or view in Rails? My "divs" look great at 1280x800, but not so hot on 800x600. I want to dynamically alter the layout based on the resolution. Any hints regarding screen size or alternate ways of handling this issue would be appreciated. Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An

I''m writing an appliation that contains several dynamically created lists. I had hoped that the following method for using the Sortable library from scriptaculous would work: 1) create the list 2) create a Sortable for it 3) create another list 4) create a Sortable for it and so on. Unfortunately this doesn''t work. I can''t find any info in the documentation for