Allow an extra step before pinging search engines

[kjvarga]

Allow an extra step before pinging search engines

[kjvarga]

You can do it in your sitemap config, right after the create block. Then when you run the rake sitemap:refresh task it will create the sitemap, execute your rsync bit and then ping the search engines (which is done last via a call to SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.ping_search_engines).

That's the easiest way. If you want to break things up into separate rake tasks it's a bit trickier because the ping needs info from the sitemap config. So we would need a separate rake task to do the ping which evals the sitemap config but doesn't recreate the sitemaps. Seems overly complicated.

[alexslade]

Ah, great tip, thanks.

I think we've got a niche use-case, we have to generate our sitemaps on one server (background rake task) and the sync it to several other servers over the next 15 minutes. Ideally I'd like to delay the ping until after that.

I might just write our own task to ping the search engines based on our files.

[kjvarga]

Ok I see. That's probably quite common because you don't want to generate the sitemaps on all your servers. But the good news is that it's actually super easy to do...I forgot that the ping just needs to know the location of the index file, nothing more.

So you can do something like this, borrowing the options you have in your sitemap config:

# rake task, runner or other
SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.host = 'http://example.com'
SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.ping_search_engines # ping http://example.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz

Don't forget to generate your sitemaps with rake sitemap:refresh:no_ping.