Impressionist vs active_analytics

Impressionist

Rails Plugin that tracks impressions and page views (by charlotte-ruby)

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active_analytics

First-party, privacy-focused traffic analytics for Ruby on Rails applications. (by BaseSecrete)

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Impressionist		active_analytics
	Project
1	Mentions	7
1,522	Stars	389
0.1%	Growth	2.6%
0.0	Activity	4.9
5 months ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Impressionist

Posts with mentions or reviews of Impressionist. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Alternatives for the impressionist gem
1 project | /r/rails | 11 May 2022

I'm currently about to upgrade my rails 6.1 app to rails 7, but I'm dependent on a gem called impressionist which will break down with rails 7. There seems to be few people asking about this in the issues, but the maintainers are not very active and not answering them. As I need the functionality they provide I would like to hear about alternatives to this so if anyone happens to know anything I would be glad to hear!

active_analytics

Posts with mentions or reviews of active_analytics. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-21.

ActiveAnalytics: A Rails engine directly mountable in your Rails application
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Sep 2023
Track where users came from within rails application
1 project | /r/rails | 24 Jun 2022

We are making a gem to have some simple analytics in Rails apps: https://github.com/BaseSecrete/active_analytics
Analytics set-up for Rails
2 projects | dev.to | 21 Mar 2022

Rails official plugins (known as "gems") often start with "Active-". You will encounter sometimes some gems outside the Rails world whose name also starts with "Active". That's the case today with Active Analytics, a gem from BaseSecrete.
What tools other than monitoring do you folks use in production?
2 projects | /r/rails | 16 Oct 2021

RoRvsWild's Active Analytics (https://github.com/BaseSecrete/active_analytics).
Active Analytics Ruby Gem
2 projects | /r/ruby | 21 Jun 2021
ActiveAnalytics: First-party, privacy-focused traffic analytics for Ruby on Rails applications.
1 project | dev.to | 17 Jun 2021

Source on Github
ActiveAnalytics: First-party privacy-focused traffic analytics for Ruby on Rails
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jun 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Impressionist and active_analytics you can also consider the following projects:

Ahoy - Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails

Legato - Google Analytics Reporting API Client for Ruby

Analytical

Rack::Tracker - Tracking made easy: Don’t fool around with adding tracking and analytics partials to your app and concentrate on the things that matter.

Gabba - Simple way to send server-side notifications to Google Analytics

Staccato - Ruby library to perform server-side tracking into the official Google Analytics Measurement Protocol

The Chartable Ruby gem - A lightweight and database-level Ruby library to transform any Active Record query into analytics hash ready for use with any chart library.