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Ruby

Posted by Joseph Hall
Joseph Hall
10,865 Points

Building A Survey Application in Ruby on Rails

Hi Treehouse Members and Staff,

I want to replicate Survey Monkey for a small, in-company analytics project. For this, I plan to have a custom link where a user can take a survey, and an admin panel where my fellow co-workers can login and examine and query survey results.

An example is found here of what I want to create: http://dribbble.com/shots/1390801-Mixpanel-Survey-Analytics-UI-UX/attachments/201133

1) How could I get data from a form (the survey taken by a user), and parse it into a graph/table/reportable format inside of a dashboard. (is there a tutorial or gem you know of that may solve this issue?)

2) In general, are there any other suggestions for building a system like in the link above?

3) In the future, how could I replicate Mixpanel is a small scale way to measure traffic and data on a site?

Thanks!

Joseph Hall

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2 Answers

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points
Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

I suggest taking a look at this:

http://railscasts.com/episodes/196-nested-model-form-revised

From there, you can get the survey working and data into the database. Then, you can build a controller to handle the data and create the charts, graphs, and data tables that you want.

Alex Lopez
Alex Lopez
2,042 Points
Alex Lopez
Alex Lopez
2,042 Points

It is a good start and I'm doing something like that, but after you create a survey how you convert that in some kind of form where a user can respond and keep I'm mind that maybe there is correct and fake answers, more like an exam.. Do you have some resources in mind where I can learn this? Thanks