Meta Tags from Scratch with Current Attributes, ActiveModel & render_in Discussion
Hey Chris! Sounds like you’re doing awesome work! Helping Rails developers build apps is a fantastic contribution. Keep it up!
Here’s a forum-style response in a friendly and knowledgeable tone, addressing "Meta Tags from Scratch with Current Attributes, ActiveModel & render_in
Discussion" — assuming the topic is about Ruby on Rails view components or helpers:
Great topic! Building meta tags from scratch using render_in
and ActiveModel
can be a really clean and flexible way to handle SEO in Rails apps today. Using render_in
from ViewComponent (or custom component-style helpers), you can easily encapsulate your meta tag logic and pass dynamic content using ActiveModel-like objects. For example, creating a MetaTagComponent
that takes in a page object (with attributes like title
, description
, image
, etc.) makes your views much cleaner and easier to test. Plus, you can include defaults, fallbacks, and even localized strings right in the component. It's also nice to decouple meta logic from controllers this way. If anyone's using this pattern, I’d love to hear how you're managing conditional tags (like Open Graph or Twitter Cards) and what conventions you're following for attribute names.
This pattern helps you build a modular, maintainable, testable, slitherio and gem‑free solution for SEO meta tags in Rails apps.