Mint Stats for Your Ruby on Rails App 6 comments
My name is Geoff, and I’m a Mintoholic.
I’ve started using Mint, a much hyped commercial stats package that was released a few months ago by Shaun Inman, one of the judges for the Typo Theme Contest.
Yes, it costs US$30 per site, but I think it’s worthwhile. It shows a lot of information in a small space and has a very usable Ajax-powered interface. It provides other ways to track your site stats (like an RSS feed of new referrers). Finally, it is extensible and many free plugins are available.
The only problem is that it makes you want to check it every 5 minutes, and get a third monitor!
Actually, there are a few other problems, but they are easily overcome.
Nuby on Rails
Geoffrey Grosenbach / Ruby / Code / Graphics / Design / Rails / Merb / Javascript / CSS
Have you had a chance to compare this to Google’s Analytics offering (which is free)?
The main drawback of Analytics (for me) is that it is based on embedded Javascript, and thus can only track browser-based page views (no RSS, no downloads, etc). However, if Mint suffers from this same limitations, I’d be curious to know how they hope to address that.
What about Weed? It’s rails and it is free, looks like mint in other colors ;)
Are you sure it’s Mint that’s causing the desire for a third monitor, and not the little known, but sometimes financially lethal desktopitis, which causes otherwise sane people to need to cover their desk in monitors?
Once you get that second monitor, it’s all downhill from there.
Jon Wood you speak the truth! I am thinking of getting a 3rd monitor. I cant imagine needing more than that though…yet. From an web designer standpoint you have 1 monitor for your coding, 1 monitor for your browser view, and 1 for misc stuff such as IM’s or music player…just thought of a fourth monitor. 1 for reference docs. :-)
Mint looks like it has a good UI, but for now my AWStats suits me.
Oh and why stop at three monitors? Found this one day, drooool.
Eric Davis
Just to throw it out there, I contributed to RailStat:http://www.railstat.com a little bit. It’s simple, but decent.