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rubango
A ruby API wrapper for integrating your rails application with Totango.
Installation
gem install rubango # use 'totango' when require-ing
Usage
First, build your client with your API id:
Totango.srv_id "YOUR_ID_GOES_HERE"
By default, Totango will not make remote calls. It will print a debug message about the URL that would be getting hit. This message can be annoying when testing. To turn the message off, use Totango::Config:
Totango::Config[:suppress_output] = true
To make the remote call to totango.com you must turn the tracker on:
Totango.on! # you will probably only want to do this in production mode.
You now interact with Totango.client to do your bidding:
Totango.client.track({
:organization => "Current organization",
:user => "Current user",
:activity => "Current activity",
:module => "Current module"
})
You can optionally pass a 'Foreign ID' to Activity Events to indicate the Organization’s identifier on foreign systems:
Totango.client.track({
:organization => "Current organization",
:user => "Current user",
:activity => "Current activity",
:module => "Current module",
:ofid => "1234"
})
By default, Totango will create a new thread to make the remote calls. If you already track the events using a background job, you should use synchronous calls. To turn synchronous calls on, use Totango::Config:
Totango::Config[:synchronous] = true
There is also the option for integration with different ruby frameworks.
Rails
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
include Totango::Adapters::Rails
#...
end
That will build your tracking code based around a couple of sane defaults. By default it will set the current module to params[:controller] and activity to params[:action]. If you wish to override the defaults you can do so in your controllers:
class MyController < ApplictationController
sp_default :activity, "Whatever you want here"
# You may also send a Proc object as the value so that it is
# evaluated in the context of the current controller. For example:
sp_default :user, proc { method_to_determine_current_user }
end
To track different actions, you must now tell Totango which actions you would like to track:
class MyController < ApplictationController
track :index
track :show, "Override default activity text here"
track :edit, :user => "override other defaults in a hash"
track :destroy, :if => proc { params[:my_boolean] } # Use conditionals to only run tracking based on the eval'd code in the Proc object
end
Rolling your own adapter
There are currently adapters for rails and merb, but it is simple to write your own adapter
module MySPAdapter
extend Totango::Adapters::Base
register_adapter :my_adapter
hook_method :before_hook # Hook method name that will be called before or after each action
action_finder :action_name # Method that determines the current action being hit
# You can set defaults from here that will be set on the controller class
# that includes your adapter and all of its subclasses
sp_default :activity, proc {action_name}
sp_default :module, proc {controller_name}
end
TODO
- Adapter tests
- JS client integration