Headshop

Meta tag management to DRY up your views and SEO the crap out of your site.

To get started with headshop add it to your gemfile:

gem 'headshop'

Headshop relies on a yml file to determine the meta tags to display. Create an initializer file (config/intializers/headshop.rb) and tell headshop where your yml file is located.

Headshop.setup do |config|
  config.config_file = File.join(Rails.root, 'config', 'headshop.yml')
end

Headshop will search the yml file with the controller name/action name to find the correct tags. To populate the meta tags for the index action on the landing controller:

landing:
  index:
    title: Landing Page
    description: Landing Page
    keywords: landing, page

Headshop will also look for default meta tags if they are defined. If headshop cannot locate the tags for a controller/action pair, the default tags will be displayed.

default_meta:
  title: Default Page
  description: Default Page
  keywords: default, page

You can also apply base tags to each matching tag:

base_meta:
  title: Headshop |
  description: Headshop |
  keywords: headshop

This will output (given the default_meta above):

<title>Headshop | Default Page</title>
<meta name='title' content='Headshop | Default Page' />
<meta name='description' content='Headshop | Default Page' />
<meta name='keywords' content='headshop, default, page' />

Meta tags aren't limited to title, description and keywords. Headshop will apply any meta tag found in the yml file to your view.

Display the meta tag in your view with the meta_tag helper:

= meta_tag

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