Parsely Meta Tag Ruby Example

parsely.rb

require 'date'

title       = "Zipf's Law of the Internet: Explaining Online Behavior"
link        = "http://blog.parsely.com/post/57821746552"
image_url   = "http://blog.parsely.com/inline_mra670hTvL1qz4rgp.png"
section     = "Programming"
author      = "Alan Alexander Milne"
pub_date    = Time.new(2012,1,1,11,34,2, '-05:00')
tags        = ["statistics", "zipf", "internet", "behavior"]

def get_clean_parsely_page_value(val)
    return val.gsub(/\n/, "").gsub(/'/, '\u0027')
end

parsely_page = {}
parsely_page[:title]      = get_clean_parsely_page_value(title)
parsely_page[:link]       = link
parsely_page[:image_url]  = image_url
parsely_page[:type]       = "post"
parsely_page[:post_id]    = "57821746552"
parsely_page[:pub_date]   = pub_date.utc.strftime("%FT%TZ")
parsely_page[:section]    = get_clean_parsely_page_value(section)
parsely_page[:author]     = get_clean_parsely_page_value(author)
parsely_page[:tags]       = tags

output = "<meta name='parsely-page' content='#{JSON.generate(parsely_page)}' />"