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Rails – Creating multiple home#index pages with same html but different variables? – SEO

For SEO purposes, I’d like to be able to use the same HTML template in my paint#index file to create multiple urls with different @seo_title attributes.

For example:

My HTML index page (located on app/views/paint/index.html.erb):

<% @seo_title = "Red Paint Colors" %>
<h1> PAINT COLORS </h1>
<ul><% @paint_colors.each do |p| %>
  <li><%= p.name %> - <%= p.color_family %></li>
<% end %>
</ul>

And my routes file:

get "red-paint-colors", to => "paint#index"

This makes the url: ww.mysite.com/red-paint-colors

my controller: 

class PaintController < ApplicationController
  def index
    @paint_colors = Paints.all
  end
end

Basic setup, I know…but I’d like to be able to inject a bunch of different paint colors for the url and @seo_title so that I can have a url with that reads: www.mysite.com/blue-paint-colors with the @seo_title of “Blue Paint Colors”.

There’s dozens of colors, is there a way I can just make a list of the colors and have a page dynamically created for each color? So basically I’d have www.mysite.com/blue-paint-colors, www.mysite.com/yellow-paint-colors, www.mysite.com/green-paint-colors, etc??

Thanks in advance!

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  1. 0

    I didn’t have the chance to try this code yet, but I think it could be helpful.

    In your routes.rb file:

    ARRAY_OF_COLORS.each do |color|
  get "#{color}-paint-colors", to => "paint#index", color: color
end

    In your PaintController:

    def index
  color = params[:color]
  # Stuff here
end
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  2. 0

    I would rather do it in the show view than in the index view. Then you could use friendly_id gem to customize the url. The :slug can then be a combination of the color with the static part -paint-colors.

    In terms of bulk uploading colors: I would take a look at CSV Imports.

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