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title: "Simple App Stats with StatBoard"
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date: 2012-11-28T00:00:00+00:00
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draft: false
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canonical_url: https://www.viget.com/articles/simple-app-stats-with-statboard/
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---
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We build a lot of small apps here at Viget as part of [Pointless
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Corp](http://pointlesscorp.com/), like
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[SpeakerRate](http://speakerrate.com/),
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[OfficeGames](http://officegam.es/), and
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[BabyBookie](http://babybookie.com/). It's fun to track how many people
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are using them, and rather than write yet another Rakefile to generate
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reports, I decided to create a simple [Rails
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Engine](http://edgeapi.rubyonrails.org/classes/Rails/Engine.html) to
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display some basic stats. Announcing, then,
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[StatBoard](https://github.com/vigetlabs/stat_board):
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Installation is a cinch: add the gem to your Gemfile, mount the app in
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`routes.rb`, and set the models to query (full instructions available on
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the [GitHub
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page](https://github.com/vigetlabs/stat_board#basic-configuration)). The
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code itself is embarrassingly simple, so if you have any ideas for
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improvements, or just want to see how a simple Rails Engine works, take
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a look.
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