CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby-on-railsmetadata
user2911232
user2911232

Reputation:

Setting up meta data for a Rails Website

I have been struggling to figure out how to place my meta data for all pages. The head tag where the meta data must be placed is on application.html.erb. My approach at first which I later found as a bad practice was to check the URL path, like: if request.original_fullpath == '/faq' to show the meta data for the FAQ page.

Despite being a bad practice, this couldn't help on pages that are dynamic (like the user's profile pages). Then I decided to take a simple approach and make it work. I added the meta tags on each page individually. I was naive thinking that can be overridden by using the head tag on each page. So I was wondering, how do I set the meta tags/data for each page on Rails? What's your approach?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1191

Answers (1)

Thomas Klemm
Thomas Klemm

Reputation: 10856

The content_for helper might work well.

# app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
<head>
  <%= content_for :meta_tags %>
</head>

# app/views/posts/show.html.erb
<% content_for :meta_tags do %>
  ...
<% end %>

Upvotes: 1

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