https://github.com/stuliston/garb-reporter

Small wrapper to compliment the excellent Garb gem (http://github.com/vigetlabs/garb). Please have a glance over their documentation as it covers some imprtant Google Analytics stuff too.

Traditionally with Garb, you'll create a class for every report that you want. So a report that pulls back visits might look like this:

class Visits
	extend Garb::Model

	metrics :visits
end

and one that gets visits and page views might look like this:

class VisitsAndPageViews
	extend Garb::Model

	metrics :visits, :pageviews
end

The you would use the report classes like this:

> Garb::Session.login(username, password) # this is only one option, please see Garb docs
> profile = Garb::Management::Profile.all.detect {|p| p.web_property_id == 'UA-XXXXXXX-X'}
> Visits.results(profile)

My idea was that, it would be nice to be able to avoid creating the report classes up-front by utilising a common querying API (like a poor man's ActiveRecord API, if you will).

So, when you have garb-reporter in your project, you no longer have to create those classes (Visits or VisitsAndPageViews above) up-front.

The authentication and profile retrieval steps remain the same:

> Garb::Session.login(username, password) # this is only one option, please see Garb docs
> profile = Garb::Management::Profile.all.detect {|p| p.web_property_id == 'UA-XXXXXXX-X'}

But thereafter we just have to create a GarbReporter::Report instance with the profile:

> report = GarbReporter::Report.new(profile)

Then we can bust out some (albeit limit at this stage) querying awesomesauce:

> report.visits
> report.pageviews
> report.pageviews_and_visits
> report.pageviews_and_visits_by_date
> report.organicsearches
> report.organicsearches_by_source

You can probably see the pattern, but as long as you keep it legal with The Big G, a la:

http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/dimsmets/dimsmets.html

...and format your methods like this:

> [metric]_and_[metric]_and_[metric]_by_[dimension]_and_[dimension]

you should be laughing.

As of version 0.0.4, you can also pass through the other parameters as per the Garb docs:

• start_date: The date of the period you would like this report to start
• end_date: The date to end, inclusive
• limit: The maximum number of results to be returned
• offset: The starting index
• filters: (see Garb docs)

• Implement respond_to on Report class to clean up validation

• Garb (tested against version 0.9.1)

• rspec
• i18n
• vcr
• fakeweb

gem install garb-reporter OR with bundler: gem 'garb-reporter' and `bundle install`

• Stu Liston (https://twitter.com/stuliston)
• Eric Harrison (https://twitter.com/gzminiz)

Thanks especially to the Garb core contributors. This tiny gem relies heavily on the great work they've produced

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Copyright (c) 2011 Stuart Liston

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