Here's another quickie I wrote to my benefit - I have bad memory! This helps me remember things for the future. :)

We've all been there as web developers, how do I keep track of views? How many people have seen this profile page? How many people have viewed this car listing page? You have to take into account a lot of different bits to make this work properly. From keeping bots at bay, to protecting against rogue wget trolls; it's a lot of work.

In Ruby on Rails there's a gem called Impressionist; and it let's you quickly and easily add view counters to your pages. Safely. Win-win?

I wrote a tutorial on my Tech.pro account showing you how to add it into an existing Rails application. Hopefully it helps you out. :)

http://tech.pro/tuto...pressionist-gem