Acts more SEO

Install

gem install acts_more_seo

and in your Gemfile:

gem 'acts_more_seo'

About

Gem makes your ActiveRecord models more SEO friendly. Changes URLs to look way better. You need to include acts_more_seo in your class declaration and you're ready to go. No other changes required.

Example

First of all - remember to make URL fields uniq!

class CoolElement < ActiveRecord::Base
    acts_more_seo :title
end

mod = CoolElement.create({:title => 'cool stuuf :)'})
cool_element_path(mod) ===> cool_elements/12345-cool-stuff

You can also pass an array of columns like this

class CoolElement < ActiveRecord::Base
    acts_more_seo :columns => [:name, :surname, :title]
end

mod = CoolElement.create({
        :name => 'Maciej',
        :surname => 'Mensfeld',
        :title => 'cool stuuf :)'
      })
cool_element_path(mod) ===> cool_elements/12345-maciej-mensfeld-cool-stuff

Further more - if you don't want to use an ID in your urls, just set use_id param to false

class CoolElement < ActiveRecord::Base
    acts_more_seo :columns => [:name, :surname, :title], :use_id => false
end

mod = CoolElement.create({
        :name => 'Maciej',
        :surname => 'Mensfeld',
        :title => 'cool stuff :)'
      })
cool_element_path(mod) ===> cool_elements/maciej-mensfeld-cool-stuff

However, if you do so - it is highly recommended to create string seo_url column in your model:

add_column :model, :seo_url, :string

so you can search via seo method:

CoolElement.find_by_seo(params[:id])

You don't need to update seo_url, gem will hook up with this field automatically if it exists.

If you want to maintain your urls history, run:

rails generate acts_more_seo:install

In order to create a SeoHistory table which will contain your urls history. History will be searchable (you don't need to do anything), just inform acts_more_seo that you want to use history:

class HisElement < ActiveRecord::Base
    acts_more_seo :column => :name, :use_id => false, :history => true
end

After that, you can use find_by_seo and it will search also though the urls history.

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Commit, do not mess with Rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2011 Maciej Mensfeld. See LICENSE for details.