Ability to set user on javascript

[gknedo]

If the API ins't running on the same server i couldn't found a way to track the user of the action

[ankane]

There's no way to do this right now, but happy to accept a PR (will need to get it added to Ahoy Ruby project as well). Maybe something like:

ahoy.setUserId(1);

[gknedo]

Working on it

[nabilfreeman]

I'd also be really interested in this feature - @gknedo looking forward to seeing the result!!!

[gknedo]

@nabilfreeman WIP, working o ruby gem now.

[artyrcheek]

Is this available?

[nabilfreeman]

Still interested too... lol. Prepare yourself for the following crime against humanity...

I wrote a Lambda that checks the Ahoy tables every 30 min and copies properties.user_id to the user_id column in both events and visits table. Works great as our throughput is currently below 1m rows per 30min, but very wasteful and kind of dumb to maintain.

(This is because we don't run rails but still use Ahoy separately from our Node stack)

[artyrcheek]

This was my hacky solution using the ruby gem.

def track_event(data)
    if data[:properties]["shop_id"]
      data[:shop_id] = data[:properties]["shop_id"]
      data[:properties].delete("shop_id")
    end
    super(data)
  end

I set the user_id (or shop id in my case) as a property, then i listen track_event, and set the shop if if there is a shop id property