views count calculation

could you give me idea how to calculate unique views of page? If i will increase counter on each page load it will be no good, otherside storing information of viewed pages in session looks like not ideal solution.开发者_StackOverflow

If you don't want to increase the counter on every single hit, but only on the first time some user visists, you must store it somewhere. I would store it in a database table and store the session_id and the page in this table. Then I would increase the counter only if the current session haven't already visited the current page and then store it to the database.

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This question is quite old, but what about is_visitable?

I've done similar things using a before filter and a page_views table.

Here's a migration to create the table:

class PageViews < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    create_table :page_views do |t|
      t.string :controller
      t.string :action
      t.timestamps
    end
  end
end

And a model class: /app/models/page_view.rb:

class PageView < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :action, :controller
end

Then in the application_controller add a before_filter to insert a record with every request:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  before_filter :track_page_request
  def track_page_request
    PageView.create({:controller => params[:controller], :action => params[:action]})
  end
end