Ahoy visits not created with after_validation :geocode uncommented

Question

I have integrated Ahoy into our platform and it works great for tracking events etc. I am now trying to extend the functionality with enabling geocoding. The issue I am running into is as soon as I uncomment the

after_validation :geocode

line, visits stop recording in the database.

What am I doing wrong here?

visit.rb

class Ahoy::Visit < ActiveRecord::Base
  self.table_name = "ahoy_visits"
  # ahoy_visit

  geocoded_by :ip
  # after_validation :geocode
  has_many :events, class_name: "Ahoy::Event"
  belongs_to :user
end

ahoy.rb (note the short visit duration for testing):

class Ahoy::Store < Ahoy::DatabaseStore
end

# set to true for JavaScript tracking
Ahoy.api = true

# better user agent parsing
Ahoy.user_agent_parser = :device_detector

Ahoy.geocode = true
# Ahoy.server_side_visits = :when_needed

Ahoy.visit_duration = 10.seconds
# Ahoy.visit_duration = Rails.application.secrets.visit_duration

Ahoy.quiet = false

geocoder.rb

Geocoder.configure(
    # Geocoding options
    timeout: 15, # geocoding service timeout (secs)
    lookup: :google, # name of geocoding service (symbol)
    :ip_lookup => :maxmind, # IP address geocoding service (see below for supported options):
    language: :en, # ISO-639 language code
    use_https: true, # use HTTPS for lookup requests? (if supported)
    # http_proxy: nil,            # HTTP proxy server (user:pass@host:port)
    # https_proxy: nil,           # HTTPS proxy server (user:pass@host:port)
    api_key: Rails.application.secrets.google_server_api_key, # API key for geocoding service
    # cache: nil,                 # cache object (must respond to #[], #[]=, and #keys)
    # cache_prefix: 'geocoder:',  # prefix (string) to use for all cache keys

    # Exceptions that should not be rescued by default
    # (if you want to implement custom error handling);
    # supports SocketError and Timeout::Error
    # always_raise: [],

    # Calculation options
    units: :km, # :km for kilometers or :mi for miles
    # distances: :linear          # :spherical or :linear
  )

To re-iterate, when I comment out the geocoding line visits are recorded properly and ahoy works as expected. Thanks.

EDIT I am certain there is an exception being thrown but it is not bubbling up in the logs and I have debug logging enabled. Ahoy just states that "[ahoy] Event excluded since visit not created:" yet on the UI we can see that a visit is being started via these log statements from ahoy:

Visit started

ahoy.self-01ef77de70801670c1f7f2f12fea979d59ba70488a77db75270b57ec5b1a2f8e.js?body=1:175 {visit_token: "4c7e0bcb-7afb-48cd-91ed-1bdf0d614767", visitor_token: "374bf981-d843-45c3-953d-0f0b8fd5a6a7", platform: "Web", landing_page: "http://localhost:3000/", screen_width: 1680, …}

ahoy.self-01ef77de70801670c1f7f2f12fea979d59ba70488a77db75270b57ec5b1a2f8e.js?body=1:175 {name: "$click", properties: {…}, time: 1533656941.084, id: "c967b67f-96f7-4f18-a9a8-df3735fdc1c2", js: true}

do you have the latitude and longitude attributes in your model? — xploshioOn, Aug 07 '18 at 15:58
if you see at the documentation of geocoder gem `With ActiveRecord, add two attributes/columns (of type float or decimal) called latitude and longitude` try creating them and test it, if it works I will create the answer — xploshioOn, Aug 07 '18 at 16:11
It did not work, visits are still not being created. Thanks though — gwnp, Aug 07 '18 at 16:13
Hey @gwnp, did you manage to fix this, I am also running into a similar issue, i am however checking it on localhost — opensource-developer, Jun 11 '19 at 14:29
@opensource-developer unfortunately I didn't, we are running without geocoding enabled. — gwnp, Jun 13 '19 at 14:03

Ahoy visits not created with after_validation :geocode uncommented

visit.rb

ahoy.rb (note the short visit duration for testing):

geocoder.rb

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