#331 A/B Testing with Split pro

I've just released the new version of Split (0.4.0, https://rubygems.org/gems/split/versions/0.4.0) that contains the new config option that Ryan mentioned that helps to avoid users participating in multiple experiments at the same time.

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Awesome - thanks Ryan & Andrew!

Ah, this time you're 2 days late! I used it earlier this week and is great tool indeed. Customer happy that they can do A/B testing and stop/restart testing sessions themselves, which is a relief also for me ;).

I think the short variant of form won't work since there should be password confirmation validation in the model.

I'd love to use this in a JS frontend with a rails backend. Is there a way or what would be the best way to implement it?

I've been using this gem for a while and it's awesome!

Similar to Vincent, I'm looking to use something like this to track in-page actions. I'm imagining that the solution will be to fire an AJAX hit back to the site to an action which triggers the conversion.

Nice work Andrew!

Slightly different and built for Rails, I've released the split_tester gem. It integrates easily with Google Analytics so that you can use Analytics as your evaluation dashboard.

https://github.com/jhubert/rails-split-tester

So happy to see more people A/B testing their apps.

Just a small notice...

In episode notes there is
config/split_config.rb

which should be
config/initializers/split_config.rb

A quick FYI for others that are using engine yard instances. You will want to have redis running on a utility instance and if you follow EY's recommended chef recipe and implementation, add this to your split initializer:

# Load the redis.yml configuration file
redis_config = YAML.load_file(Rails.root + 'config/redis.yml')[Rails.env]

# Connect to Redis using the redis_config host and port
if redis_config
  $redis = Redis.new(:host => redis_config['host'], :port => redis_config['port'])
end

if $redis
Split.redis = $redis
end

Split.configure do |config|
config.db_failover = true # handle redis errors gracefully
config.db_failover_on_db_error = proc{|error| Rails.logger.error(error.message) }
# config.allow_multiple_experiments = true
end

Great cast!

One question though? How do you set the identity of a user like in A/Bingo?

I want to A/B test for loggin in users and identify them by userid.