Rails 4 turbolinks with Google Analytics

Question

I\'m wondering what is the best way to implement Google Analytics tracking code along with the turbo linking in Rails 4. Will the normal snippet work? I\'ve also seen a gems

Answer 1

A quick glance into the source shows, that the only thing this gem does is to add some javascript to the asset-pipeline

# google-analytics-turbolinks/lib/assets/javascripts/google-analytics-turbolinks.js.coffee
if window.history?.pushState and window.history.replaceState
  document.addEventListener 'page:change', (event) =>

    # Google Analytics
    if window.ga != undefined
      ga('set', 'location', location.href.split('#')[0])
      ga('send', 'pageview')
    else if window._gaq != undefined
      _gaq.push(['_trackPageview'])
    else if window.pageTracker != undefined
      pageTracker._trackPageview();

That's all there is to it. You can either use the gem or add something like this code-snippet manually to your javascript-assets.