blacklight-sitemap¶ ↑

Rake task for creating a sitemap from a Blacklight Solr index.

• This version only works with Rails 3.2/Blacklight 4. Some changes to how Blacklight is configured and how it communicates with Solr mean that it will currently only work with Blacklight 4 using the standard CatalogController.

• In Gemfile

  gem 'blacklight-sitemap', '~> 2.0.0'
  

• Install the gem:

  bundle install
  

• Run the generator:

  rails g blacklight:sitemap
  

• Open your Rakefile and edit the BlacklightSitemapTask to your liking using the

provided documentation.

• Run the rake task:

  rake blacklight:sitemap
  

• Remove created sitemap files:

  rake blacklight:sitemap:clobber

• Either remove your current blacklight-sitemap from your Rakefile or comment it out.

• Install the latest gem. You may need to update the version in your cofig/environment.rb

• Run the generator again.

• Determine the lastmodified date for a particular sub-sitemap. For large indexes, allowing search engines to only download the sitemaps which have changed will be important. Can we always sort by timestamp?

• How to more fully test the gem independent from a Rails application with Blacklight installed?

• Instead of having to hardcode the base url find an easy way to include Blacklight route url helpers in the rake task.

• Incremental sitemaps?

• Check file size to insure a sitemap doesn’t go above the 10MB limit.

• Insure the sitemap index file does not exceed 50,000 sitemaps and 10MB.

Jason Ronallo

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