I want to see how many people are visiting my pages, what is the proper way of tracking a rails application?
You can use
Segment.io
Segment.io’s integrations with Mixpanel, Klaviyo, Google Analytics, and many others. reference url
Google Analytics
from awesome-ruby
Analytical - Gem for managing multiple analytics services in your rails app.
FnordMetric - A ruby/redis framework for collecting and visualizing timeseries data. It enables you to build beautiful real-time analytics dashboards within minutes.
Gabba - Simple way to send server-side notifications to Google Analytics.
Impressionist - Rails Plugin that tracks impressions and page views.
Legato - Model analytics reports and queries against the official Google Analytics Reporting API.
Rack::Tracker - Rack middleware that can be hooked up to multiple services and exposing them in a unified fashion.
Staccato - Track analytics into the official Google Analytics Collection API.