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Validation: Create clicks table and tracking

validation-36-2026-06-13 Doc

validation pass
Project

Verdict: PASS

Ticket

ldraney/palinks#36 — Create clicks table and tracking. Adds a clicks table to record link usage, with session-based anonymous tracking, redirect-through pattern, and click count display on the show page.
Merged PR: #42

Environment

Production cluster (archbox), namespace palinks, URL: https://palinks.tail5b443a.ts.net
Pod: palinks-6b8fbf884f-qb5ss, image: harbor.tail5b443a.ts.net/palinks/app:e5352d7fb5e91bfe773bfab6c7c22e8da4b00018

Tiers Executed

Tier 1 (local tests) + Tier 3 (production health check)

Checks

# Criterion How Verified Result Evidence
1 Clicking a link card records a click row with link_id and clicked_at POST /links/6/click with CSRF token; verified click count incremented from 0 to 1 on show page PASS HTTP 302 redirect; show page displays "1 click" after POST
2 Anonymous clicks record session_id from the Rails session Code review: ClicksController#current_session_id generates session-based ID; Click.create! includes session_id PASS Controller sets <code>session[:click_tracking_id] ||= session.id&amp;.to_s || SecureRandom.hex(16)</code>
3 After recording, user is redirected to the actual link URL POST /links/6/click returns 302 with redirect to link's URL PASS HTTP 302, redirect_url: https://admin.tail5b443a.ts.net/
4 Link#click_count returns total clicks for that link Show page displays click count; verified increment from 0 to 1 after POST PASS Show page: "1 click" after recording; model: <code>def click_count; clicks.count; end</code>
5 Click recording does not break existing link card UI or navigation All routes return 200: /, /links, /links/new, /links/6, /links/6/edit, /up. Local tests: 14 runs, 0 failures PASS All routes HTTP 200; bin/rails test: 14 runs, 28 assertions, 0 failures
6 user_id column exists but is nullable and has no FK constraint Schema review: <code>t.bigint "user_id"</code> (no null: false). Only FK is <code>add_foreign_key "clicks", "links"</code> PASS db/schema.rb: user_id column present, nullable, indexed, no FK constraint
7 Both index partial and show page route through click tracking Production HTML: index cards use <code>/links/:id/click</code> POST forms; show page uses same pattern PASS grep found /links/6/click, /links/3/click, etc. in index HTML; show page has <code>action="/links/6/click"</code>

Tier 1: Local Tests

bin/rails test: 14 runs, 28 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips
Tests cover: Click model validations (attribution, clicked_at, belongs_to), controller integration (POST creates click and redirects, 404 for missing link, click_count increments)

Tier 3: Production

  • Woodpecker pipeline #19: success (clone + build-and-push both green)
  • ArgoCD Image Updater: detected new tag e5352d7f..., pushed to pal-e-deployments, ArgoCD synced
  • Pod: Running, Ready 1/1, 0 restarts
  • Health check: /up returns 200
  • Click endpoint: POST /links/6/click returns 302, redirects to correct URL, increments click count

Regression Check

All existing routes verified healthy after deployment:
  • / (root/index) — 200
  • /links — 200
  • /links/new — 200
  • /links/6 (show) — 200
  • /links/6/edit — 200
  • /up (health) — 200
Favorites, edit, delete buttons all present in rendered HTML. No console errors or broken elements observed.

Discovered Issues

None.