I'm currently building my first API with Grape and the Rails 5 api mode and it's going fairly well until now. I decided to install the Impressionist gem to be able to log the view counts of a certain model (future "popular" page) but I'm running into an issue where I feel I have setup the gem correctly but the impressionist
method used to actually log the info in the database is undefined.
In my model, the gem is initialized like this is_impressionable :counter_cache => true
I then have in app/api/my_app/my_model.rb
module MyApp
class MyModel < Grape::API
# GET /api/v1/model/:slug
desc "Returns a model record"
params do
requires :slug, type: String, desc: "Model slug", allow_blank: false
end
route_param :slug do
get do
my_model = MyModel.friendly.find(params[:slug])
impressionist(my_model)
present my_model, with: MyModelPresenter
end
end
end
end
to log the activity but the impressionist method is undefined. I tried ImpressionistController::ClassMethods.impressionist
as well without success. I have other gems like friendly_id and will_paginate which work perfectly out of the box with this setup. Do I have to require something specific ?
It seems that impressionist does not support Grape:
You can use it manually:
imp = Impression.new
imp.impressionable_type = object.class.to_s
imp.impressionable_id = object.id
imp.user_id = current_user.nil? ? 0 : current_user.id
imp.controller_name = "topics"
imp.action_name = "show"
imp.request_hash = Digest::SHA2.hexdigest(Time.now.to_f.to_s+rand(10000).to_s)
imp.ip_address = env['REMOTE_ADDR']
imp.session_hash = request.session_options[:id]
imp.referrer = request.referer
imp.save
https://github.com/charlotte-ruby/impressionist/issues/172#issuecomment-62844576