dpogue / rails_wink

Wink allows users to easily provide browser details for debugging.

Wink (for Rails)

About

We got tired of asking people to send us their browser information, screen size, and plugins... so we made it easier for everybody.
Wink grabs a snapshot of the current browser and sends it away.

Please fork and make it better!

This was originally implemented for PHP by Denim & Steel: https://github.com/denimandsteel/wink

##Installation Add gem 'rails_wink' to your Gemfile.

Generate the wink.yml configuration file with rails g rails_wink:config.
Edit the values to point to your support/bug tracking email address.

Mount the engine in your Rails application's config/routes.rb, like this:

Rails.application.routes.draw do

  # Mount the engine at /wink
  mount RailsWink::Engine => '/wink', :as => 'wink'

end

Run your application, and visit /wink.

You can now do cool things like link_to 'Report a Bug', wink.root_url in your application's views.

##License MIT License
Copyright (C) 2012 Darryl Pogue

rails_wink's Issues

Catch JSON Exceptions

If a spambot fills out the Modernizr textarea with link spam, the JSON parser fails and raises an exception.

We should catch this exception.

Include HTTP referrer information

It would probably be useful to know what page the user was on when they clicked to report a bug.

Rewrite as Rack Plugin?

The original PHP script is a single file, and fairly lightweight. Comparatively, this Rails engine feels massive (although it does have some extra stuff like config files).

I'm interested if this sort of thing could be implemented as a plugin for Rack, which should be lighter and faster than the current engine.

Unfortunately, I don't have much knowledge of Rack (which is something I keep meaning to read up about), so I'm not in a position to be able to do this.

Off the top of my head, sending emails is the only part I'm not entirely sure Rack could handle, but the worst case scenario is that we'd need to drop down to the Mail gem directly.

Include JSON2 for people without native JSON parsing

This includes older iOS versions and older version of IE (below IE8).

I really hate pulling in a library that isn't necessary for most people (with browsers that already support JSON), so I'll probably hold off doing this until someone needs it.

Detect Flash support (and version?)

In theory, it can be deteted based on something like https://gist.github.com/719973