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

I appreciate scottwb's answer, but unfortunately it does not work with Rails 5. In Rails 5 Turbolinks events were renamed. The 'page:change' event was renamed to 'turbolinks:load'. This is why his example does not work anymore.

You can find an overview of how they were renamed here: https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks/blob/master/src/turbolinks/compatibility.coffee

Since this took me some time to figure out, I am posting the proper Rails 5 implementation for everybody coming after me.

Put the following code in your

And then in a js file (eg. application.js) in you asset pipeline:

$(document).on('turbolinks:load', function() {
   ga('send', 'pageview', window.location.pathname + window.location.search);
});

Remember to replace "UA-XXXXXXXX-X" with your Google Analytics ID.