Seoable

Make your ActiveRecords SEO friendly.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'seoable'

Execute:

$ bundle

Run the install generator:

$ rails generate seoable:install

The generator:

• Creates an initializer to allow further configuration
• Creates a migration for seo_details table

Configure

Override the defaults in config/initializers/seoable.rb:

Seoable.configure do |config|
  config.default_title = 'My app name'
  config.default_description = 'The best app in the known universe'
  config.sluggable_attributes = [:title, :headline]
end

Usage

Add include Seoable::ActsAsSeoable to any ActiveRecord you want to make Seoable:

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  include Seoable::ActsAsSeoable
end

In your application layout file (probably app/views/layouts/application.html.erb):

Replace this line:

<title>ApplicationName</title>

With this line:

<title><%= seoable_title %></title>

Add the following line below <title>:

<meta name="description" content="<%= seoable_description %>" />

Adding to existing app

If you’re adding seoable to existing app and want to generate SeoDetails for existing records, perform save for every model that includes ActsAsSeoable. You can do this from the console, runner or add a Rake task. For example:

Post.find_each(&:save)

Troubleshooting

Column reference is ambiguous

If you see the error similar to column reference "id" is ambiguous, it’s due to including seo_details table through default_scope. To fix this, specify table name in your queries, like this:

scope :only_big_ids, -> { where('"posts"."id" > 3') }

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rspec to run the tests.

To install the gem with your changes onto your local machine, run rake install.

TODO

You’re more than welcome to send us pull-requests. Here’s the list of TODO items we’re looking to work on in the future:

• Add functionality to set default_title and default_description per model
• Add title_format configuration variable
• Create redirect on Seoable model save
• Add caching
• Integrate with ActiveAdmin (but have it optional)

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/DVELP/seoable. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

Seoable is copyright of DVELP Ltd. It is free software and available to distribute under the terms of the MIT License.

Seoable was created and is maintained by DVELP Ltd.

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