If you are working on a project long enough you’ll probably think that every link, button, image is exactly where it should be.
If you coded it or designed it, then there’s something worse: You’ll have a hard time accepting that noone saw that big, bold sign up link.
Rails is a framework about conventions. It generates a basic structure which you mold into your dream application.
Over the course of the years, we have gathered some basic, rails specific, hints and tips you might want to check before going live. They are split into sections to make it easier to scan them, and pick the ones you haven’t indulged (yet) in. Read on, have fun, and comment a lot…
Sitemaps are a cool way for describing your site’s structure to search engines.
They can be more than useful when your site’s link aren’t always that easy discoverable (like searches for example).
There are some examples for generating sitemaps on the fly using an .rxml template, but if you site contains a large number of links you’ll need more than that.
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