dalexj / web_stats_challenge

Web Stats

An application to provide data about urls visited.

Goal

Come up with a Ruby on Rails application, using Sequel as its ORM, and that allows its users to access two distinct reports, in the realm of web stats, via a REST API:

1. Number of page views per URL, grouped by day, for the past 5 days (/top_urls)

2. Top 5 referrers for the top 10 URLs grouped by day, for the past 5 days (/top_referrers)

Getting Started

You'll need to edit database.yml and change for your own mysql database or use ENV["MYSQL_PASSWORD"] with root user.

Tests are run with bundle exec rake, might require RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rake.

bundle exec rake db:seed will delete all Visit records and create 1 million new ones at random using preset urls/referrers in db/seeds.rb

Problems

The current /top_referrers runs many queries (see commit efdafa ). If the sql ran could gather the referrers at the same time as top urls, this will probably be greatly improved