MixTape

The Problem

Littering controllers with MixPanel events with large param payloads isn't a nice thing to do.

MixTape tries to help by creating a DSL for specifying your events in advance, and keeping them in a single file.

Defining your Events

MixTape::Builder.definition do

  button_click "Log number of times user clicks button" do |user, button|
    {
      user_name:   user.username,
      distinct_id: user.id,
      button_id:   button.id,
      button_page: button.page
    }
  end

  checks_mail "User just checked their mail" do |user, inbox|
    {
      distinct_id: user.id,
      user_name:    user.username,
      user_id:      user.id,
      unread_count: inbox.count
    }
  end

  user_invites_friend "User has invited a friend" do |user, friend|
    {
      distinct_id: user.id,
      user_name:    user.username,
      user_id:      user.id,
      friend_name:  friend.name
    }
  end
end

To track a defined event:

MixTape.track_user_invites_friend(user, friend)

To update an existing event object:

MixTape.set_user_invites_friend(user, friend)

Available Events

To view defined events:

rake mix_tape:events

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'mix_tape'

Don't forget to set your MixPanel API token:

MixTape.config do |config|
  config.token =  '12345'
end

If you are in a dev or test environment and don't want to send events to MixPanel:

MixTape.config do |config|
  config.fake = true
  config.console_logging = true
end

If you want Mixpanel to use your request variables to track user's location etc, then add this to your application controller:

before_filter :update_mixtape_request

def update_mixtape_request
  MixTape.request = request
end

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install mix_tape

Contributing