spree_sitemap_generator

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 cron 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. make sure crawlers can find the sitemap, by adding the following line to your public/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
• jackkinsella

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