How can I make ahoy's javascript asynchronous function track synchronous

Question

I have some code which calls a function like this :

function trackPDFSEClicks(){
        ahoy.track("Viewed Job Spec", {title: "Viewed Software Engineer Job Spec"});
        window.location.href = "/Software Engineer.pdf";
    }

However because this track call is asynchronous - sometimes it doesn't complete before the PDF has loaded - and therefore the event is not tracked.

I do not necessarily want to have to go and handle this tracking in the controller as it would be far simpler for me to use this method if possible - so is there any way I can force this ahoy.track call to be run synchronously?

Answer 1

经过呼吸暂停的见解，我决定只在控制器中为我的每个可下载链接创建一个动作-并将ahoy的rails API与rails send_file方法结合使用-这给了我期望的行为。