Mixpanel Resque Job

MixpanelTrackEventJob.rb

require 'net/http'

class MixpanelTrackEventJob
  @queue = :slow

  def self.perform(name, params, user_id, user_ip = nil)
    user = User.find(user_id)
    
    params.merge!({ :distinct_id => user.id, :mp_name_tag => user.email }) if !user.nil?
    params.merge!({ :ip => user_ip }) if !user_ip.nil?
    
    track_event(name, params)
  end
   
  private

  def self.parse_response(response)
    response == "1" ? true : false
  end 

  def self.request(params)
    payload = JSON.generate(params)
    data = Base64.encode64(payload).gsub(/\n/,'')
    url = "http://api.mixpanel.com/track/?data=#{data}"
    Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse(url))
  end

  def self.append_event(event, properties = {})
    append_api('track', event, properties)
  end

  def self.append_api(type, *args)
    queue << [type, args.map {|arg| arg.to_json}]
  end
  
  def self.build_event(event, properties)
    { :event => event, :properties => properties }
  end

  def self.track_event(event, properties = {})
    options = { :token => AppSettings.api_keys.mixpanel, :time => Time.now.utc.to_i }
    options.merge!(properties)
    params = build_event(event, options)
    parse_response request(params)
  end
  
end

made it a bit smaller, 18 lines of code, mixpanel/mixpanel-ruby#13