# Tracking Users in a Rails App

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tracking-users-in-a-rails-app/148442>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 12, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tracking-users-in-a-rails-app/148442 "2008-09-12T21:52:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Avishai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Avishai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Avishai)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tracking-users-in-a-rails-app/148442/1 "2008-09-12T21:52:12Z")

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Hey everyone,

I’m looking to track what my users do in my Rails app. I know that for  
pageviews, etc. there’s Google Analytics, and that’s fine, but I’m  
looking to implement a more robust, user specific way to know what  
users are doing on the site. It has several social features, and I  
want to log which users visit which pages, how many times, etc., and  
use that data to display more relevant information to them, show what  
items are the most popular, etc.

Does anyone have any general tips about how to best do this? I’m  
somewhat worried about hitting the DB with a write on every request…

Thanks,

Avishai

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**Author:** ![Avishai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Avishai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Avishai)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tracking-users-in-a-rails-app/148442/2 "2008-09-13T00:27:01Z")

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have a look at acts as activity logged

pls read this message

[http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse\_thread/thread/9d880bf4603b33a0/2aac898b7e228462](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/9d880bf4603b33a0/2aac898b7e228462)

I hope you can help me figure out how to install it 🙂