Rake task for creating a sitemap from a Blacklight Solr index.
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This version only works with Rails 3.2/Blacklight 4. Some changes to how Blacklight is configured and how it communicates with Solr mean that it will currently only work with Blacklight 4 using the standard CatalogController.
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In Gemfile
gem 'blacklight-sitemap', '~> 2.0.0'
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Install the gem:
bundle install
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Run the generator:
rails g blacklight:sitemap
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Open your Rakefile and edit the BlacklightSitemapTask to your liking using the
provided documentation.
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Run the rake task:
rake blacklight:sitemap
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Remove created sitemap files:
rake blacklight:sitemap:clobber
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Either remove your current blacklight-sitemap from your Rakefile or comment it out.
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Install the latest gem. You may need to update the version in your cofig/environment.rb
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Run the generator again.
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Determine the lastmodified date for a particular sub-sitemap. For large indexes, allowing search engines to only download the sitemaps which have changed will be important. Can we always sort by timestamp?
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How to more fully test the gem independent from a Rails application with Blacklight installed?
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Instead of having to hardcode the base url find an easy way to include Blacklight route url helpers in the rake task.
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Incremental sitemaps?
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Check file size to insure a sitemap doesn’t go above the 10MB limit.
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Insure the sitemap index file does not exceed 50,000 sitemaps and 10MB.
Jason Ronallo
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