Tracking Page Popularity in a Time Frame in Rails

I'm very new to web development and this seems like a basic question, so perhaps I just lack the correct terminology to search it on Google.

On my site I plan to have man开发者_开发技巧y dynamically generated pages, based off data in a MySQL server, and I would like to know which ones people have been visiting the most, in say, the last 24 hours, so that I can place these most popular page on the front page of the site. How would I/would I be able to accomplish this in a Rails application.

What you're looking for is a web analytics solution to analyze your traffic, and possibly your marketing effectiveness. Here are some of the most prominent services you could use with your website:

• Google Analytics
• Chartbeat
• Reinvigorate
• HaveAMint
• GetClicky
• Piwik
• Woopra

Personally, I use Google Analytics as its setup is darn simple: configure your account, add a Javascript snippet on each of the pages you want to track, and you're done.

You could also look out for web analytics software that you would host. All in all, take a look at this Wikipedia page for more information.