How to trigger ahoy.track from a model ?

[leoplct]

Hi,

I have to trigger the event ahoy.track 'User Sign up' in the User.after_create callback.
I want to avoid to call it in a controller (eg. thank you page).

after_create do
  ahoy.track(user_id: self.id, name: 'User Sign up')
end 

Error: ahoy is not defined.

[ankane]

Hey @leoplct, Ahoy doesn't have an official method to access the ahoy object in a model. Unofficially (which could break at any time), you can use Thread.current[:ahoy].

[ankane]

Cleaning up issues

[ankane]

Just added an official method for this on master - Ahoy.instance . It'll only be set if the model is used in a controller context, so you'll need to make sure your code handles the case when it's nil.

after_create do
  ahoy = Ahoy.instance
  ahoy.track("User Sign up", user_id: id) if ahoy
end 

[leoplct]

Thank you.
I need to trigger an event when an ActiveJob is completed. Do you think this is the best approch?

I have updated to last version and run it from console but I got nil.

Running via Spring preloader in process 6612
Loading development environment (Rails 6.0.3.4)
irb(main):001:0> Ahoy.instance
=> nil

[InsightForesight]

I have meet the same issue, and fixed like this:

add a new method to module Ahoy, it create a fake visit and track events

# config/initializers/ahoy.rb
module Ahoy
  def self.non_visit_track(event_name, visit_properties: {}, event_properties: {})
    visitor = Ahoy::Visit.create(visit_properties)
    visitor.events.create(name: event_name, time: Time.now, properties: event_properties)
  end
end

and call it anywhere

Ahoy.non_visit_track(AppEvent::MembershipTransfer,
        visit_properties: { user_agent: 'Rails Console' },
        event_properties: { from_user_id: from_user.id, to_user_id: target_user.id })

Thank you. I need to trigger an event when an ActiveJob is completed. Do you think this is the best approch?

I have updated to last version and run it from console but I got nil.

Running via Spring preloader in process 6612
Loading development environment (Rails 6.0.3.4)
irb(main):001:0> Ahoy.instance
=> nil