[ot?] Per-project RubyGem stats

[Tom Copeland]

Howdy -

One nice thing about RubyForge is that you can see how many times your
project has been downloaded. But downloads via RubyGems don't get put
in the RubyForge database, so they don't show up in the charts. This is
sad.

However, you can now get an idea of how many Gem downloads your project
has had in the current month by going (for example) here:

http://gems.rubyforge.org/usage/usage_200504.html#TOPURLS

This shows download stats for the top 500 gems for April.

Yours,

Tom

 

[Lyle Johnson]

This shows download stats for the top 500 gems for April.

Huh. What are these "Rake" and "Rails" gems that are getting so many downloads?

P.S. That was a joke, people. Lighten up.

 

[Daniel Berger]

Huh. What are these "Rake" and "Rails" gems that are getting so many downloads?

P.S. That was a joke, people. Lighten up.

Clearly *someone* setup an automatic program to pump their own download
stats. But, I won't mention any names.

KIDDING!

Dan

 

[Chad Fowler]

Howdy -

One nice thing about RubyForge is that you can see how many times your
project has been downloaded. But downloads via RubyGems don't get put
in the RubyForge database, so they don't show up in the charts. This is
sad.

However, you can now get an idea of how many Gem downloads your project
has had in the current month by going (for example) here:

http://gems.rubyforge.org/usage/usage_200504.html#TOPURLS

This shows download stats for the top 500 gems for April.

Nice, Tom!

Do you happen to capture user agent? I'd be _really_ interested in seeing that.

--

Chad Fowler
http://chadfowler.com
http://rubycentral.org
http://rubygarden.org
http://rubygems.rubyforge.org (over 300,000 gems served!)

 

[why the lucky stiff]

Huh. What are these "Rake" and "Rails" gems that are getting so many
downloads?

You've got a lot of nerve, Lyle. This is EXACTLY the kind of trolling
that gets you killfiled today. *plonk*

P.S. That was a joke, people. Lighten up.

Oh, whoops. Hehe. Cool joke, bud!!

_why

 

[Tom Copeland]

Nice, Tom!

Do you happen to capture user agent? I'd be _really_ interested in seeing that.

Hm, you know, I'm not capturing that in the HTTP logs now... but GForge
keeps a sort of rolling activity log for the past week or so:

====================================
gforge=> select browser, count(*) from activity_log group by browser;
browser | count
---------+--------
OPERA | 233
MOZILLA | 257478
OTHER | 168405
IE | 77051
(4 rows)

gforge=>
====================================

Where Mozilla == (Firefox|moz|etc), I bet.

Yours,

Tom

 

[Jim Weirich]

Daniel Berger said:

Clearly *someone* setup an automatic program to pump their own download
stats. But, I won't mention any names.

I confess. My autodownload program is called Rails. Every time someone
installs Rails, it also downloads a copy of Rake.

 

[Chad Fowler]

Hm, you know, I'm not capturing that in the HTTP logs now... but GForge
keeps a sort of rolling activity log for the past week or so:

====================================
gforge=> select browser, count(*) from activity_log group by browser;
browser | count
---------+--------
OPERA | 233
MOZILLA | 257478
OTHER | 168405
IE | 77051
(4 rows)

gforge=>
====================================

Where Mozilla == (Firefox|moz|etc), I bet.

What I was hoping for is stats on gems.rubyforge.org. We report user
agent when people do a remote install, so we could see who's using
what versions.

Thanks!

--

Chad Fowler
http://chadfowler.com
http://rubycentral.org
http://rubygarden.org
http://rubygems.rubyforge.org (over 300,000 gems served!)

 

[Tom Copeland]

What I was hoping for is stats on gems.rubyforge.org. We report user
agent when people do a remote install, so we could see who's using
what versions.

Ah, nope, we don't capture that yet in the HTTP logs. Hm. I wonder if
anything bad would happened if I added that to the log output spec
thingy. Would it break all the previous Webalizer graphs and whatnot...

Yours,

Tom