How to make web analytics valuable for Rails apps

Traditional web analytics aren't always the most useful for web apps, where a single controller with a dynamic route can serve an infinite number of different URLs. For example, /organization/fewer-and-faster and /organizations/boxout-sports are really the same page, but they show up in analytics as two separate…

Client-side feature flags

Did you know you can use Flipper to create and manage feature flags for your client-side app, even though Flipper is a Ruby gem and doesn't have client libraries in other languages? (Yet!) In one of our apps, we created a custom Flipper API that returns the value…