I have a rails app and I figured I should probably generate a sitemap, but the problem is more related to best practices or the acceptable data to put in a site map… firstly do you guys even recommend creating a sitemap.xml file?
Secondly, say we have like a social networking site, wouldn’t the XML file grow so insanely large?
You might want to have a look at this plugin. As for the second: yes, it would. You should probably not have an item for every single record in your DB – maybe just one item that links to a paginated index.