Universal Analytics Measurement Protocol 200 - Nothing shows up - ruby

Question

Like the title says, nothing shows up in real time events nor in any other event
The request being sent is done with ruby's faraday gem
require 'faraday'
require 'json'
GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_SETTINGS = {}
class GoogleAnalyticsApi
def event(client_id = '555', category, action, label, value, user_agent)
return unless !GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_SETTINGS["tracking_code"].empty?
params = {
v: GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_SETTINGS["version"],
tid: GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_SETTINGS["tracking_code"],
cid: client_id,
t: "event",
ec: category,
ea: action,
el: label,
ev: value
}
begin
puts params
c = Faraday.new() do |f|
f.request :url_encoded
f.response :logger
f.adapter Faraday.default_adapter
end
response = c.post GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_SETTINGS["endpoint"], params, { "User-Agent" => user_agent || "Subscribing Worker theSkimm" }
puts response.headers
puts response.body
return true
rescue Exception => rex
return false
end
end
end
From the console:
{:v=>1, :tid=>"UA-XXXXXXXX-1", :cid=>"1999999999.1389999972", :t=>"event", :ec=>"test-event", :ea=>"test-action", :el=>nil, :ev=>nil}
I, [2014-01-15T18:04:04.555555 #7666] INFO -- : post http://www.google-analytics.com/collect
D, [2014-01-15T18:04:04.555667 #7666] DEBUG -- request: User-Agent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1700.76 Safari/537.36"
Content-Type: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
I, [2014-01-15T18:04:04.670273 #7666] INFO -- Status: 200
D, [2014-01-15T18:04:04.670512 #7666] DEBUG -- response: pragma: "no-cache"
expires: "Mon, 07 Aug 1995 23:30:00 GMT"
cache-control: "private, no-cache, no-cache=Set-Cookie, proxy-revalidate"
access-control-allow-origin: "*"
last-modified: "Sun, 17 May 1998 03:00:00 GMT"
x-content-type-options: "nosniff"
content-type: "image/gif"
date: "Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:04:04 GMT"
server: "Golfe2"
content-length: "35"
alternate-protocol: "80:quic"
connection: "close"
{"pragma"=>"no-cache", "expires"=>"Mon, 07 Aug 1995 23:30:00 GMT", "cache-control"=>"private, no-cache, no-cache=Set-Cookie, proxy-revalidate", "access-control-allow-origin"=>"*", "last-modified"=>"Sun, 17 May 1998 03:00:00 GMT", "x-content-type-options"=>"nosniff", "content-type"=>"image/gif", "date"=>"Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:04:04 GMT", "server"=>"Golfe2", "content-length"=>"35", "alternate-protocol"=>"80:quic", "connection"=>"close"}
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Answer 1

For whomever encounters this the problem was setting nil value for el and ev. When the params hash is moved through Faraday the nil valued items get converted to the key name without any value and google didn't like that.
IE a query string with nil values going through Faraday would be:
...&el&ev
Not good for google's Measurement Protocol.