remove google-analytics middleware due to the fact that it doesn't support injection of custom variables before _trackPageView is called (this results in custom vars not getting tracked)

i've submitted an issue to the gem.  hopefully we can put it back in later… for now i've copy and pasted its output into a helper method.

Gemfile

@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ gem "rpm_contrib", "~> 2.1.7"
 group :production do # we don't install these on travis to speed up test runs
   gem 'rack-ssl', :require => 'rack/ssl'
   gem 'rack-rewrite', '~> 1.2.1', :require => false
-  gem 'rack-google-analytics', :require => 'rack/google-analytics'
   gem 'rack-piwik', :require => 'rack/piwik'
 end
 

Gemfile.lock

@@ -321,7 +321,6 @@ GEM
     rack-cors (0.2.4)
       rack
     rack-fiber_pool (0.9.2)
-    rack-google-analytics (0.10.0)
     rack-mobile-detect (0.3.0)
       rack
     rack-mount (0.8.3)
@@ -554,7 +553,6 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   parallel_tests
   pg
   rack-cors (~> 0.2.4)
-  rack-google-analytics
   rack-piwik
   rack-rewrite (~> 1.2.1)
   rack-ssl

app/helpers/analytics_helper.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#   Copyright (c) 2010-2012, Diaspora Inc.  This file is
+#   licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or later.  See
+#   the COPYRIGHT file.
+
+module AnalyticsHelper
+  def include_google_analytics
+    return unless google_configured?
+
+    segment = current_user ? current_user.role_name : "unauthenticated"
+    javascript_tag do
+      <<-JS
+          var _gaq = _gaq || [];
+          _gaq.push(['_setAccount', "#{AppConfig[:google_a_site]}"]);
+
+          _gaq.push(['_setCustomVar', 1, 'Role', '#{segment}']);
+          _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
+          _gaq.push(['_trackPageLoadTime']);
+
+          (function() {
+            var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
+            ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
+            var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
+          })();
+      JS
+    end
+  end
+
+  private
+
+  def google_configured?
+    AppConfig[:google_a_site].present? && AppConfig[:google_a_site].present?
+  end
+end

app/helpers/application_helper.rb

@@ -40,12 +40,6 @@ module ApplicationHelper
     javascript_tag("Modernizr.mq('(min-width:0)') ||  document.write(unescape('#{j javascript_include_tag("mbp-respond.min")}'));")
   end
 
-  # This will *only* fire if analytics are configured (don't panic!)
-  def include_advanced_segments
-    segment = current_user ? current_user.role_name : "unauthenticated"
-    javascript_tag("if(window._gaq) { _gaq.push(['_setCustomVar', 1, 'Role', '#{segment}']) }")
-  end
-
   # Require jQuery from CDN if possible, falling back to vendored copy, and require
   # vendored jquery_ujs
   def jquery_include_tag

app/views/layouts/application.html.haml

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
     = set_current_user_in_javascript
     = translation_missing_warnings
     = current_user_atom_tag
-    = include_advanced_segments
+    = include_google_analyics
 
     = yield(:head)
     = csrf_meta_tag

app/views/layouts/post.html.haml

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
     = set_asset_host
     = translation_missing_warnings
     = current_user_atom_tag
-    = include_advanced_segments
+    = include_google_analytics
 
     - if @post.present?
       %link{:rel => 'alternate', :type => "application/json+oembed", :href => "#{oembed_url(:url => post_url(@post))}"}

config/initializers/load_analyitics.rb

@@ -5,11 +5,6 @@
 
 if Rails.env == 'production'
   Diaspora::Application.configure do
-    if AppConfig[:google_a_site].present?
-      config.gem 'rack-google-analytics', :lib => 'rack/google-analytics'
-      config.middleware.use Rack::GoogleAnalytics, :tracker => AppConfig[:google_a_site]
-    end
-
     if AppConfig[:piwik_url].present?
       config.gem 'rack-piwik', :lib => 'rack/piwik'
       config.middleware.use Rack::Piwik, :piwik_url => AppConfig[:piwik_url], :piwik_id => AppConfig[:piwik_id]