Email Tracking

Episode #407 by Teacher's Avatar David Kimura

Summary

In this episode, we take a user privacy focused approach to tracking emails for unique opens and view counts. We'll look at how we can track these emails without invading the user's privacy and get meaningful metrics.
rails email analytics 15:11

Chapters

  • Introduction (0:00)
  • Review the existing code base (2:31)
  • Generate migration (3:18)
  • Setting up the models (4:18)
  • Setting up controller and routes (4:58)
  • Creating the email tracker show action (6:31)
  • Generating the EmailTracker record (8:48)
  • Displaying the tracker pixel (9:21)
  • Setting up the admin view for email trackers (10:33)
  • Demo (12:57)
  • Final thoughts (13:55)
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