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Trouble in SEOland: Ruby on Rails frustration

by orvn
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Hello,

So I'm trying to integrate some META tags and whatnot into a website.
Turns out the site runs nginx on the server and appears to the using a Ruby on Rails framework.

The website is using ERB files that are somehow run from a template engine.

When I go to ..../sitename_main/stable/app/views/main/ (damn that's deep in the tree!)

I find a whole bunch of files that appear to be the ones I am looking for.
index.html.erb
page1.html.erb

So I open them up and it turns out that they start directly from the <body>, no doctype, head or title tags!

I did some digging and it turns out I may learn more by visiting
..../sitename_main/stable/app/views/layout/
in this subdirectory, there's a file called application.html.erb.
but it's empty?!

I'm so perplexed, please help. I do have programming experience and I just spent a few hours learning to program in Ruby, I got the hang of it, but I have no idea of what I'm doing in terms of Rails.

Merçi!
#frustration #rails #ruby #seoland #trouble
  • Profile picture of the author Jesus Carrera
    in application.html.rb is where you are supposed to have your <htm>, <head>, and <body> tags. To have different meta tags for each page, you put something like this:

    <meta name="description" content="<%= yield :description %>" />

    and in the page:

    <% content_for :description do %>The description<% end %>

    Hope this helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author orvn
      Thanks for the reply!
      It turns out textedit wasn't opening the file correctly.
      In my layouts folder, when I open up application.html.erb (the only file there) I see this:

      PHP Code:
      <%= yield :extra_header_tags %>     
      <%=       stylesheet_link_tag 'jquery.lightbox-0.5' %>     
      <%=       stylesheet_link_tag 'style.css' %> 
          <%= yield :      stylesheets %>       
      <%=       javascript_include_tag ['jquery', 'jquery.lightbox-0.5', 'java.js'] %>     <%= yield :javascripts %>    
      <%= yield %> 
      I understand what you mean about the titles, and head tags, however my application.html.erb file only appears to specify stylesheets?

      What if I'm trying to add a different value for METAs, on say, 10 different pages, should I create individual variables or is there some way I should create an array?
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  • Profile picture of the author kersimp
    Hi,

    I've searched for similar problems as yours and here is what I found. You can use these codes in your template:

    <% content_for :html_title, 'My Specific Page Title' %>
    <% content_for :html_description, 'My Specific Page Description' %>
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