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There's a todo on the main readme so I figured I'd start some discussion around it since I had a use for it this morning.

The intention being that you should be able to trigger event tracking upon an action triggered from Javascript.

Something like this(jQuery):

$(function(){
  $("a").on("click", function(){
    track_event("Clicked link");
  });
});

Right now the track_event method puts each event call into the session(session[:event_tracker_queue]) and then appends them to the body tag. How about we have track_event_tag which just outputs the event tracking code only?

In the view

$(function(){
  $("a").on("click", function(){
    <%= track_event_tag("Clicked link") %>
  });
});

Outputs

$(function(){
  $("a").on("click", function(){
    mixpanel.track("Clicked link");
    _kmq.push(['record', 'Clicked link']);
    ga('event_tracker.send', 'event', 'event_tracker', 'Clicked link');
  });
});

Since event_tracker injects its HTML into the head tag with an after_filter, a request that is halted in a before_filter and rendered means that any other before_filter and after_filter methods won't be called.

This introduces the problem where you cannot track metrics on any page that is rendered in a before_filter (that is halted, of course).

I got an error with this code:

track_event("Event", job_title: name: @object.virtual_attribute)

Now I must append to_s to the method:

track_event("Event", job_title: name: @object.virtual_attribute.to_s)

Can the gem perform to_s(or whatever) before storing data into session?

Intercom has similar support for tracking events and similar "people" support, would a PR be welcome?

Related links:
http://docs.intercom.io/Configuring-Intercom/adding-custom-data
http://docs.intercom.io/intercom-javascript-api

I just noticed that turbolinks breaks event_tracker. Only the first page load gets tracked. After that, no more event get to mixpanel or kissmetrics.

PS: I read turbolinks navigation was to become the default in Rails 4.

I recently stumbled upon an issue with tracking events. After registration in my website, I accidentally clicked on an advertisement link in the page following the registration. I used the "back" button of my browser to get back to the last page of my website. This triggered the previous "registration event" a second time. Any chance to avoid that behavior somehow?

Google allows to mark some events as non-interaction.
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/eventTrackerGuide#non-interaction

If you send event in Google Analytics but user bounces on the same page it is not tracked as bounce as Google treats that event as user action. Would be great if we could set event as non-interactional.

Will try to make pull-request myself.

the thing is that the app we are working on uses 2 layouts for 2 cases, one called application.html.erb, the other one called project.html.erb

in project.html.erb there is no mixpanel javascript in the header, am I doing something wrong or the gem is not built for such cases?

Thank you.

Hi,

Great gem! I see no alias option, can I add it or am I just missing it?