diff --git a/app/models/debate.rb b/app/models/debate.rb
index 28181101a..208d10277 100644
--- a/app/models/debate.rb
+++ b/app/models/debate.rb
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ class Debate < ActiveRecord::Base
   before_validation :sanitize_description
   before_validation :sanitize_tag_list
 
+  # ahoy setup
+  #----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  visitable # Ahoy will automatically assign visit_id on create
+
+
   def likes
     get_likes.size
   end
diff --git a/db/migrate/20150808102442_add_visit_id_to_debate.rb b/db/migrate/20150808102442_add_visit_id_to_debate.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4d09f2cd0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/migrate/20150808102442_add_visit_id_to_debate.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+class AddVisitIdToDebate < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def change
+    add_column :debates, :visit_id, :string
+  end
+end
diff --git a/db/schema.rb b/db/schema.rb
index 7846bfd1e..b60f74eae 100644
--- a/db/schema.rb
+++ b/db/schema.rb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 #
 # It's strongly recommended that you check this file into your version control system.
 
-ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20150808100936) do
+ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20150808102442) do
 
   # These are extensions that must be enabled in order to support this database
   enable_extension "plpgsql"
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20150808100936) do
     t.integer  "author_id"
     t.datetime "created_at",             null: false
     t.datetime "updated_at",             null: false
+    t.string   "visit_id"
   end
 
   create_table "taggings", force: :cascade do |t|