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1 --- 2 title: "Simple App Stats with StatBoard" 3 date: 2012-11-28T00:00:00+00:00 4 draft: false 5 canonical_url: https://www.viget.com/articles/simple-app-stats-with-statboard/ 6 --- 7 8 We build a lot of small apps here at Viget as part of [Pointless 9 Corp](http://pointlesscorp.com/), like 10 [SpeakerRate](http://speakerrate.com/), 11 [OfficeGames](http://officegam.es/), and 12 [BabyBookie](http://babybookie.com/). It's fun to track how many people 13 are using them, and rather than write yet another Rakefile to generate 14 reports, I decided to create a simple [Rails 15 Engine](http://edgeapi.rubyonrails.org/classes/Rails/Engine.html) to 16 display some basic stats. Announcing, then, 17 [StatBoard](https://github.com/vigetlabs/stat_board): 18 19 {{<dither screenshot.png>}}Minimalist “StatBoard” dashboard in a browser, showing overall, monthly, and weekly counts for offices, players, users, games, and matches.{{</dither>}} 20 21 Installation is a cinch: add the gem to your Gemfile, mount the app in 22 `routes.rb`, and set the models to query (full instructions available on 23 the [GitHub 24 page](https://github.com/vigetlabs/stat_board#basic-configuration)). The 25 code itself is embarrassingly simple, so if you have any ideas for 26 improvements, or just want to see how a simple Rails Engine works, take 27 a look.