HappySeo

This plugin is intended as a simple way for small sites that want basic search engine friendly urls and keyword/description meta tags.

Example

Basic Usage

To use happy_seo for a model just declare it as such inside the class

class Author < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :books

happy_seo

end

Using it:

joel = Author.find_by_name('Joel Salatin') => #<Author id: 2, name: "Joel Salatin", description: "Joel F. Salatin (born 1957) is an American farmer, ...", tags: "smart, opinionated, honest, clever, determined", created_at: "2009-04-19 03:31:11", updated_at: "2009-04-19 03:31:11">

joel.seo_id => "2-joel-salatin"

joel.meta_keywords => "Joel Salatin, smart, opinionated, honest, clever, determined"

joel.meta_description => "Joel F. Salatin (born 1957) is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include You Can Farm and Salad Bar Beef. Salatin raises livestock using holistic methods of animal..."

You can define what the attributes used for each method is on a per model basis, or on a per call basis

joel.meta_description => "Joel F. Salatin (born 1957) is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include You Can Farm and Salad Bar Beef. Salatin raises livestock using holistic methods of animal..."

The plugin will even generate a to_param method for your object utilizing the seo_id that you have configured for it, so your link_to methods will automatically begin to utilize the improved seo url's

<%= link_to author.name, author %> => '/authors/2-joel-salatin'

Modifying the Attributes from the Defaults

You can choose to either adjust the values for the either on the fly as you are calling it, or configure it such that all instances of a particular model behave the same.

One Time Use

>> joel.meta_description([:tags, :name])
=> "smart, opinionated, honest, clever, determined. Joel Salatin"
>> joel.meta_description
=> "Joel F. Salatin (born 1957) is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include You Can Farm and Salad Bar Beef. Salatin raises livestock using holistic methods of animal..."

Model Wide Use

def Author.meta_description_attributes
  [:name, :tags]
end

joel.meta_description
=> "Joel Salatin. smart, opinionated, honest, clever, determined"

For more information on how to use it check out the specs inside the spec directory of the plugin, or read the code, there's not much to it :)

Copyright (c) 2009 Shane Wolf, released under the MIT license