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README.md

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'

  1. run bundler:

bundle install

  1. run the installer, it will create a config/sitemap.rb file with some sane defaults

rails generate spree_sitemap_generator:install

  1. add sitemap to your .gitignore

echo "public/sitemap*" >> .gitignore

  1. setup a daily 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
  1. add the following line to your robots.txt with your correct domain name

echo "Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz" >> public/robots.txt

  1. 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
  • To all who have provided pull requests, its is much appreciated

Copyright (c) 2011 Joshua Nussbaum, released under the New BSD License