Spying inside your Rails apps
April 19th, 2007
From the Ruby Inside blog comes this reference to a cleverly named Rails plugin called The MOle. From the MOle plugin website:
The MOle allows you to precisely analyze how your customers are interacting with your rails application. Instead of sitting on the console and watching your controller actions and db queries fly by, you can easily leverage the MOle and let it do this work for you by trapping events of interest. This plugin allows you to figure out if your latest application features are a success or a bust. You will be able to trap certain user interactions and record them for your next iterations. This is not yet another page hit or heat map type plugin, within a few steps you will be able to monitor your users interactions LIVE and assess your application usability from the comfort of your own machine…
Check out the video screencast to see it in action.
Posted by jaf