Spree Sitemap Generator
Spree sitemap generator is a sitemap generator based on the sitemap_generator gem http://github.com/kjvarga/sitemap_generator. It adheres to the Sitemap 0.9 protocol specification.
Installation
1) add the gem to your Gemfile
:
gem 'spree_sitemap_generator'
2) run bundler:
bundle install
3) run the installer, it will create a config/sitemap.rb
file with some sane defaults
rails generate spree_sitemap_generator:install
4) add sitemap to your .gitignore
echo "public/sitemap*" >> .gitignore
5) setup a daily cron job to regenrate your sitemap via the rake sitemap:refresh
task. If you use the Whenever gem, add this to your config/schedule.rb
every 1.day, :at => '5:00 am' do
rake "-s sitemap:refresh"
end
6) make sure crawlers can find the sitemap, by adding the following line to your public/robots.txt
with your correct domain name
echo "Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz" >> public/robots.txt
7) BOOM you're done!
More Configuration Options
Check out the README for the sitemap_generator gem at: http://github.com/kjvarga/sitemap_generator
Features
- Notifies search engine of new sitemaps (Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing)
- Supports large huge product catalogs
- Adheres to 0.9 Sitemap protocol specification
- Compresses sitemaps with gzip
- Provides basic sitemap of a Spree site (products, taxons, login page, signup page)
- Easily add additional sitemaps for pages you add to your spree site
- Supports Amazon S3 and other hosting services
- Thin wrapper over battle tested sitemap generator
Special Thanks
- The creators of the sitemap_generator gem
- jackkinsella
Copyright (c) 2011 Joshua Nussbaum, released under the New BSD License