November 2009
2 posts
“And serve, don’t sell.”
– Chuck Blakeman, The Single Most Important Marketing Tactic Ever Devised
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Simple Referral Tracking
I recently had need for a simple referral tracking mechanism in a Rails application, what we used to refer to as promo codes at AOL. Here’s the method I chose for implementation.
In my application controller I’m capturing any ‘referral’ variable in the url as a session variable of the same name.
before_filter :capture_referal
private
def capture_referal
session[:referral] =...