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TinyZap
The easiest way to make Rails applications look great in Apple Messages, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and any other website that use Open Graph.
Installation
From the root of your Rails application, run:
$ bundle add "tinyzap"
Then run:
$ rails generate tinyzap:install
This creates a app/views/layout/application.opengraph.erb file and adds include TinyZap::OpenGraph to ApplicationController.
Add to your app/views/layouts/application.html.erb file:
<head>
<%= opengraph_meta_tags %>
</head>
That's it for the bare minimum! A screenshot of the top part of the webpage will appear by default for all open graph images. Custom badges are where its at though, so read on my friend.
Setting OpenGraph data
Open graph data can be set from the view or controller via the opengraph method.
Controller
Here's a few ways to set opengraph data from a controller.
class PostsController < ApplicationController
before_action: :assign_opengraph_data
def edit
# This overrides the title that's set from `assign_opengraph_data`
opengraph.title = "Editing #{@post.title}"
end
protected
def assign_opengraph_data
opengraph.title = @post.title
opengraph.description = @post.summary
# Displays the first image of a blog post, instead of a screenshot, for the opengraph image.
# Assumes the image was managed via ActiveStorage.
opengraph.image = url_for(@post.images.first)
end
end
View
OpenGraph data may also be set from the view:
<%
opengraph.title = @post.title
opengraph.description = @post.summary
%>
<h1><%= @post.title %></h1>
<article><%= @post.body %></article>
Custom badges with Rails Views
The real power in TinyZap Open Graph is creating custom badges via the opengraph format in your rails views. For the example below, we'll create an Open Graph badge for a blog post. Assuming a blog application has a /posts/:id with a view at app/views/posts/show.html.erb, we'd create a new view with the opengraph format:
$ touch ./app/views/posts/show.opengraph.erb
Open the file and add something like:
<h1><%= @post.title %></h1>
<article><%= truncate @post.body, length: 100 %></article>
<p>This article will take <%= time_to_read @post.body %> minutes to read</p>
The TinyZap screenshot service will take a screenshot of the content at this URL and use it for the Open Graph image.
License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
FAQs
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We found that tinyzap demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 22 Nov 2023
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