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+title: "Simple App Stats with StatBoard"
+date: 2012-11-28T00:00:00+00:00
+draft: false
+needs_review: true
+canonical_url: https://www.viget.com/articles/simple-app-stats-with-statboard/
+---
+
+We build a lot of small apps here at Viget as part of [Pointless
+Corp](http://pointlesscorp.com/), like
+[SpeakerRate](http://speakerrate.com/),
+[OfficeGames](http://officegam.es/), and
+[BabyBookie](http://babybookie.com/). It's fun to track how many people
+are using them, and rather than write yet another Rakefile to generate
+reports, I decided to create a simple [Rails
+Engine](http://edgeapi.rubyonrails.org/classes/Rails/Engine.html) to
+display some basic stats. Announcing, then,
+[StatBoard](https://github.com/vigetlabs/stat_board):
+
+![](https://raw.github.com/vigetlabs/stat_board/master/screenshot.png){style="box-shadow: none"}
+
+Installation is a cinch: add the gem to your Gemfile, mount the app in
+`routes.rb`, and set the models to query (full instructions available on
+the [GitHub
+page](https://github.com/vigetlabs/stat_board#basic-configuration)). The
+code itself is embarrassingly simple, so if you have any ideas for
+improvements, or just want to see how a simple Rails Engine works, take
+a look.