https://github.com/jumph4x/canonical-rails

Quick and configurable canonical tag to use in Rails views.
https://github.com/jumph4x/canonical-rails

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Quick and configurable canonical tag to use in Rails views.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jumph4x/canonical-rails
• Owner: jumph4x
• License: mit
• Created: 2012-04-02T13:35:38.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-11-15T17:59:33.000Z (12 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-11T18:20:57.232Z (6 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
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• Size: 145 KB
• Stars: 140
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 94
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: MIT-LICENSE

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CanonicalRails

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A number of articles exist explaining the issue concisely and at length:

 *   [Google Webmaster Blog Page About Specifying Canonical](http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html)

 *   [Google Support About rel="canonical"](http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394)

 *   [Google Support About Canonicalization](http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139066)

## Guide

Take a look at this blog post that can guide you through the idea and the setup: [Easily add canonical URLs to your Rails app](http://blog.planetargon.com/entries/2014/4/4/easily-add-canonical-urls-to-your-rails-app)

## Challenge

I've seen a lot of folks do more harm by neglecting canonicalization altogether than by applying too narrowly and conservatively, so here is an attempt to let people start modestly without spending too much time on it and whitelist parameters as they need to.

## Install

    gem 'canonical-rails', github: 'jumph4x/canonical-rails'

## Usage

First, generate the config

    rails g canonical_rails:install

Then find it in config/initializers/ as canonical_rails.rb

Finally, include the canonical_tag helper inside the `head` portion of

your HTML views:

```ruby

  <%= canonical_tag -%>

```

## Cred

Originally developed for [FCP Euro - High Quality European Car Parts](https://www.fcpeuro.com).