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Tom Copeland

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Apr 29, 2005, 2:59:16 PM4/29/05
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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

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Apr 29, 2005, 4:40:47 PM4/29/05
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On 4/29/05, Tom Copeland <t...@infoether.com> wrote:

> 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

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Apr 29, 2005, 4:46:24 PM4/29/05
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Clearly *someone* setup an automatic program to pump their own download
stats. But, I won't mention any names.

KIDDING!

Dan

Chad Fowler

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Apr 29, 2005, 4:56:54 PM4/29/05
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On 4/29/05, Tom Copeland <t...@infoether.com> wrote:


Nice, Tom!

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

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why the lucky stiff

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Apr 29, 2005, 5:12:03 PM4/29/05
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Lyle Johnson wrote:

> 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

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Apr 29, 2005, 5:14:28 PM4/29/05
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On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 05:56 +0900, Chad Fowler wrote:
> > 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.

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

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Apr 29, 2005, 5:31:04 PM4/29/05
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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.

:)

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not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)

Chad Fowler

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Apr 29, 2005, 8:56:25 PM4/29/05
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On 4/29/05, Tom Copeland <t...@infoether.com> wrote:

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!

Tom Copeland

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Apr 30, 2005, 4:51:51 PM4/30/05
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On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 09:56 +0900, Chad Fowler wrote:
> 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


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