The Ideal CMS Structure For Rails

After working on WordPress for 20 years, Ghost for 5 years, and Rails for 8 years, this is the pattern I wish all Rails apps would use for basic content pages.

How to Generate a Custom Heroku Maintenance Mode Page

You can set a simple ENV VAR to deliver a custom branded Maintenance Mode landing page.

How to generate nicer sitemaps with the sitemap_generator gem

Let's walk through our /config/sitemap.rb setup with `sitemap_generator` to break up our sitemap structure into multiple files.

How to Test SEO Meta Tag Requirements in RSpec

Recently I have been testing various SEO requirements in a Rails app that uses Rspec. After copy and pasting expect(page).to have_css "meta[name='robots'][content='noindex']", visible: :hidden for the 5th time it was clear I needed to build out some