UPDATE: Now in action on this very site.

As mentioned earlier, I use Shaun Inman’s Mint for some of my sites.

The data is stored in an accessible table called mint_visit. I made a simple model to query that table so the data can be used elsewhere in your Rails app.

Someone mentioned wanting to make a Typo plugin that shows the most popular pages on your site. You could do many other things as well.

This is a very simple model. I hope to make it more full featured, so if you enhance it, send me a patch!

ActiveRecord model for Mint

Update

I implemented the Mint.visits_to_resource method which works nicely. I pass it url_for(:only_path => true) which makes it so all the alternate urls for this site are summed together (with no arguments, url_for gives the url of the current page).

In Typo, you can use the article_url() method which makes partial urls by default.

I wrote a simple helper and hacked it into ”_article.rhtml” and “read.rhtml” in the article views folder.

Here’s the helper:

def mint_page_views(url)
  %(<div class="mint_summary">
  This article has been viewed roughly #{Mint.visits_to_resource url} times in the past two weeks.
  </div>)
end

I’m using page caching, so the count won’t update every time the page is accessed. Still, the numbers are roughly accurate. I might make a cron task to sweep the cache once a day.

Eventually, this will make a nice little Rails plugin or a Typo sidebar.