How to dynamically update your sitemap in Ruby
A few months ago I received the task of making the FastRuby.io sitemap refresh automatically after each deploy. That sounds like it would be pretty straightforward if we didn’t have one issue (it’s never that easy, right?). For the FastRuby.io blog we created a gem that encapsulates a Jekyll application. The discussion of why do we have a gem for our blog is actually a good topic for a new post. For now, I want to focus on the sitemap task that I had.
Since the blog is a gem, we also need to make sure that whatever tool we use to generate the sitemap covers new blog posts.
In this article I’ll show you my journey to figure out how to make everything work together.
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