Meta on Rails plugin for meta tags
June 25, 2008
Meta on Rails is a very simple rails plugin to help you customize your pages’ meta tags a little bit easier.
How to Install
Meta on Rails is hosted on github. For Rails 2.1 or later, install in this way:
./script/plugin install git://github.com/ashchan/meta_on_rails.git
For Rails 2.0.2 or older, need to clone the public git url:
git clone git://github.com/ashchan/meta_on_rails.git vendor/plugins/meta_on_rails
Usage
Add the following code to the layout (e.g. app/views/layout/application.html.erb), and be sure to put it in the head tag:
<head>
<%= display_meta(:keywords => "default,keywords", :description => "default description") %>
</head>
Values passed to the display_meta method becomes the site-wide default values. In the above example, these two meta tags will be generated on all pages if they’re not overridden on the views:
<meta name="description" content="default description" />
<meta name="keywords" content="default,keywords" />
Then add this code to the view to set meta tags on that page:
<% set_meta(:keywords => 'my,keyword', :generator => 'a bad <script /> generator') %>
The output html will be like this (note that html tags are tripped):
<meta name="generator" content="a bad generator" />
<meta name="description" content="default description" />
<meta name="keywords" content="my,keyword" />
Dead simple, right?
Feedback
Feel free to leave a message if you have any suggestion or find bugs.
