Issue with unique users on Heroku

[georgekitchit]

For all of my ruby mixpanel calls, there seems to be an issue with anonymous users not being marked as different uniques. I know in the api it says that if an identify call is not passed, the ip address is utilized as a part of the uniqueness check. However, it seems like with the gem call, that uniqueness is not being stored.

Is this a problem with the actual gem, or the fact that our service is running through heroku? (without hostname ssl).

[zevarito]

I think I undertand what is happening and it could be fixed in the gem itself, I will check this out EOD or Tomorrow, thanks.

2011/12/19 George Tang reply@reply.github.com:

For all of my ruby mixpanel calls, there seems to be an issue with anonymous users not being marked as different uniques. I know in the api it says that if an identify call is not passed, the ip address is utilized as a part of the uniqueness check. However, it seems like with the gem call, that uniqueness is not being stored.

Is this a problem with the actual gem, or the fact that our service is running through heroku? (without hostname ssl).

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Alvaro

[georgekitchit]

I wrote a temp fix to generate an identifier, and identify whenever there isnt a signed in user

   def generate_identifier
      now = Time.now.to_i  
      Digest::MD5.hexdigest(
      (request.referrer || '') + 
      rand(now).to_s +  
      now.to_s + 
      (request.user_agent || '')
      )
    end

    identity = generate_identifier
    @mixpanel.append_api("identify", identity)

[georgekitchit]

Any updates on this? My temp fix didnt seem to work =(

[zevarito]

Hello,

I've pushed to master what should be fixing your problems, can you try it from there? If it goes ok I will push a new version of the gem.

Thanks.

[georgekitchit]

I saw your only change was to tracker.rb, so I just added lib/mixpanel/tracker.rb and copied your file into it to override the default gem tracker. Will let you know hopefully by tomorrow if it works

[zevarito]

Cool, also if you are using Bundler you can fetch the gem from the repo like this...

gem 'mixpanel', :git => "git://github.com/zevarito/mixpanel.git"

2011/12/22 George Tang reply@reply.github.com:

I saw your only change was to tracker.rb, so I just added lib/mixpanel/tracker.rb and copied your file into it to override the default gem tracker. Will let you know hopefully by tomorrow if it works

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Alvaro

[georgekitchit]

Didn't work so far, trying the fetched gem, will report back tomorrow

[georgekitchit]

Works! =)

[georgekitchit]

I assume you have added this to the main gem yes? No longer have to pull from git?

[zevarito]

hmmm of course... did you check it? :)