GoogleAds

google_ads is a simple plugin to help adding lots of google ads website and keep them maintained in one central location.

Updated to work with rails 2.3 and the latest google adsense javascript.

Example

Install the plugin.

In config/initializers/ create a new initializer (I call it google_ads.rb) and you'll want to have something like the following in there:

Rubaidh::GoogleAds.defaults.merge!({

Google Adsense Identifier, looks something like 'pub-0123456789012345'

:client => 'pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' })

setup some basic advert sizes

leaderboard = { :width => 728, :height => 90, }

small_square = { :width => 200, :height => 200 }

Customise each different type of ad, specifying the ad_slot for each advert

Rubaidh::GoogleAds.ad_formats.merge!({ :default_leaderboard => leaderboard.merge({ :ad_slot => 'xxxxxxxxxx' }), :default_square => small_square.merge({ :ad_slot => 'xxxxxxxxxx' }) })

Want adverts to be displayed in development environment?

Rubaidh::GoogleAds.environments << 'development'

And in the view, simply use:

<%= google_ad(:default_leaderboard) %> <%= google_ad(:default_square) %>

Copyright (c) 2007 [name of plugin creator], released under the MIT license