AdMob Ruby on Rails integration code¶ ↑

• www.admob.com

DESCRIPTION:¶ ↑

Enables easy integration of AdMob services (ads and/or analytics) into a RoR mobile site.

SYNOPSIS:¶ ↑

Setting up¶ ↑

• Get a publisher_id and/or analytics_id from www.admob.com and/or analytics.admob.com

• Add require "admob" to app/controllers/application.rb, or to any specific controller as needed.

• Provide some or all default settings in your environment.rb . e.g. :

  require 'admob'
  AdMob::config do |c|
    c.publisher_id = 'YOUR_PUBLISHER_ID'
    c.analytics_id = 'YOUR_ANALYTICS_ID'
    c.timeout = 1
    c.encoding = 'UTF-8'
    c.raise_exceptions = false
    c.cookie_domain = 'example.com'
  end
  

• In a view, where you want an ad, place an ad request.

• Note: You must provide your publisher_id and/or analytics_id in the default setting, or when you make the ad request (see below).

Using Cookies¶ ↑

• AdMob now uses cookies to enhance ad targeting and analytics data.

• The easiest way to enable AdMob cookies on your website is to add the following code snippet to your ActionController::Base class (usually in app/controllers/application.rb)

• This will cause AdMob::set_cookie() to be executed on every request (the function will return immediately if a cookie does not need to be set)

• Cookies are not reliable on every phone and operator, so session is required as alternate container (session).

  require 'admob'
  class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  
    ## begin AdMob cookie snippet ##
    before_filter :admob_set_cookie
  
    def admob_set_cookie
      AdMob::set_cookie(request, cookies, session)
    end
    ## end AdMob cookie snippet ##
  
  end
  

Configuring Cookies (IMPORTANT if your site uses multiple subdomains)¶ ↑

• By default, the domain of the cookie is for the host that set it. This means that cookies set from a.example.com are not visible from b.example.com

• To allow AdMob cookies to be visible everywhere on your site, you need to set a default cookie domain in environment.rb

• The default cookie domain should be the root domain of your mobile site (e.g. “example.com”, “example.co.uk”)

  require 'admob'
  AdMob::config do |c|
    c.cookie_domain = 'example.com' # if your main domain is www.example.com
    c.cookie_domain = 'example.co.uk' # if your main domain is www.example.co.uk
  end
  

Sample requests¶ ↑

If you’ve configured a default publisher and/or analytics id¶ ↑

<%= AdMob::request(request, session) %>

If you didn’t configure a default publisher_id or want to override the configured default publisher_id¶ ↑

<%= AdMob::request(request, session, :publisher_id => "YOUR_PUBLISHER_ID") %>

Request a test ad (happens by default when in test or development mode)¶ ↑

<%= AdMob::request(request, session, :test => true) %>

Request an ad, providing demographic info and keywords¶ ↑

<%= AdMob::request(request, session, :publisher_id => "YOUR_PUBLISHER_ID", :dob => "19800229", :gender => "male", :postal_code => "90210", :keywords => 'ruby gem admob') %>

Make an analytics request only¶ ↑

<%= AdMob::request(request, session, :ad_request => false) %>

See the documentation for #AdMob::request for a list of all params that can be set for a request.

REQUIREMENTS:¶ ↑

• An AdMob publisher_id and/or analytics_id (get them at www.admob.com and analytics.admob.com)

INSTALL:¶ ↑

sudo gem install admob

HELP:¶ ↑

Additional information can be found at developer.admob.com

LICENSE:¶ ↑

(The BSD License)

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