RailsSitemap

Instalation

Add the gem in your Gemfile

gem 'rails_sitemap'

It will generate an index sitemap. This sitemap will have a reference to geo-sitemap, attachment-sitemap, location sitemap and post-sitemap

<sitemapindex
  xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <sitemap>
    <loc>http://www.example.com/pages-sitemap.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2016-09-28T19:02:56+00:00</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>http://www.example.com/attachment-sitemap.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2016-09-28T19:02:56+00:00</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>http://www.example.com/geo-sitemap.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2016-09-28T19:02:56+00:00</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>http://www.example.com/post-sitemap.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2016-09-28T19:02:56+00:00</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

Configuration

If you want to generate the particular endpoint for each particular resource (in this case for each article) you have to overwrite the default configuration in initializer file.

touch config/initializers/rails_sitemap.rb

RailsSitemap.setup do |config|
  config.models_for_sitemap = %w(Article)
  config.updated_at = '2016-09-22T18:11:05-03:00'
  config.priority = 0.5
end

To define locations exposed on geo-sitemap

RailsSitemap.setup do |config|
  config.locations = [
    {
      name: 'NeonRoots Uruguay Office',
      description: 'Zelmar Michelini 1290 Apto. 401   Esq. San José - Tel.  2909 0655',
      coordinates: '-56.19006872177124,-34.907047903278404,0'
    }
  ]
end

To define the hd images to be exposed on attachment-sitemap

RailsSitemap.setup do |config|
  config.hd_images = [
    {
      name: 'mario.png',
      title: 'A super fancy mario image',
      coordinates: '12.417700299999979,45.4930475,0'
    }
  ]
end

To define posts to be exposed on post-sitemap

RailsSitemap.setup do |config|
  config.post = [
    {
      url: 'http://blog.neonroots.com/category/philosophy/example.html'
    }
  ]
end

To add custom sitemaps

RailsSitemap.setup do |config|
  config.custom_endpoints = ['https://neonroots.com/blog/sitemap_index.xml']
end

To customize the update frequency

RailsSitemap.setup do |config|
  config.update_frequency_for_app = 'always'
  config.update_frequency_for_models = 'weekly'
end

To define custom excluded paths

RailsSitemap.setup do |config|
  config.excluded_paths = %w(/email_captures /drip-submission /thank-you)
end

To define custom domain

RailsSitemap.setup do |config|
  config.domain = 'http://www.example.com/'
end