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I’m currently working on three Rails projects, two for my day job and one for myself in my spare time. Thankfully the philosophy of DRY translates as well across projects as it does across files within a single project.

A couple days ago, on my personal project which is not yet released or public, I was at the stage where I was looking to put some sort of user visitation stats into it but set that aside as something that was going to be a bit of a pain to implement, or would require learning Google Analytics or some such thing.

That is until Thiago Jackiw released the first vers of his SiteMeter Sitealizer Rails plugin. Though it’s just at version 1.0 and has only been out a couple of days it integrated into my project incredibly easily and gracefully thus far.

I really like that he’s though enough about it to make the stats login seperate from user login, as well as giving the option of making stats public. And it looks great to boot.

Update: Thiago has changed the name to Sitealizer. I like the new name better.