Dash is a simple dashboard for ecommerce companies using Google Analytics. Dash regularly polls your Google Analytics account and stores some of the most important metrics about a site's traffic.
You can see Dash working here: http://dashtest.herokuapp.com
This is my first attempt at creating an app using Sinatra. Originally, I built a dashboard for a client using rails. They found the ability to see how their different traffic sources looked in a stacked area chart particularly helpful.
Dash works best if you have ecommerce tracking enabled on Google Analytics. You can read more about ecommerce tracking here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/gaTrackingEcommerce
To get Dash up-and-running, you'll want to create a config.yml file in the main directory with the following:
username: admin@domain.com
password: *****
profile_id: UA-0000000-0Then, at the top of app.rb, you'll want to modify the brand name of the site you're working on and the currency.
#Set the name of the brand. This is used to split out search traffic.
BRAND_NAME = 'smith'
#Set the currency of the store
CURRENCY = '£'Then, to test it locally, run the following commands from the app's directory using terminal:
bundle install
shotgun config.ru
Then, to get the historical data, you can call the refresh method from your browser:
http://localhost:9393/refresh