Google Adsense Rails 3 helper

adsense_helper.rb

module AdsenseHelper
  
  # Author: Tomasz Mazur ([email protected])
  # http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/01/17/google-adsense-legacy-old-generation-code-reference-generate-and-get/
  # :slot
  # :theme
  #   :background
  #   :border
  #   :link
  #   :text
  #   :url
  # :channel 10 digits
  # :type "text", "text_image", "image"
  # :alternate_url
  
  # 120×90_0ads_al (4 links)
  # 120×90_0ads_al_s (5 links)
  # 160×90_0ads_al (4 links)
  # 160×90_0ads_al_s (5 links)
  # 180×90_0ads_al (4 links)
  # 180×90_0ads_al_s (5 links)
  # 200×90_0ads_al (4 links)
  # 200×90_0ads_al_s (5 links)
  # 468×15_0ads_al (4 links)
  # 468×15_0ads_al_s (5 links)
  # 728×15_0ads_al (4 links)
  # 728×15_0ads_al_s (5 links)


# links_per_unit
# def link_unit(type, client, theme = {}, options = {})
# end
  
  
  def ad_unit(type, client = "pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", options = {})
  
    units = {
      :leader_board     => "728x90",
      :wide_skyscraper  => "160x600",
      :banner           => "468x60",
      :half_banner      => "468x30",
      :skyscraper       => "120x600",
      :vertical_banner  => "120x240",
      :large_rectangle  => "336x280",
      :medium_rectangle => "300x250",
      :square           => "250x250",
      :small_square     => "200x200",
      :small_rectangle  => "180x150",
      :button           => "125x125"
    }

    unit = units[type]
    width, height = unit.split("x")
    
    opts = {}
    opts[:google_ad_client] = client
    opts[:google_ad_width]  = width.to_i
    opts[:google_ad_height] = height.to_i
    
    if options[:slot]
      opts[:google_ad_slot] = options[:slot]
    else
      opts[:google_ad_type] = options[:type]
      opts[:google_ad_format] = "#{unit}_as"
      if options[:theme]
        opts[:google_color_border] = options[:theme][:border]
        opts[:google_color_link] = options[:theme][:link]
        opts[:google_color_background] = options[:theme][:background]
        opts[:google_color_text] = options[:theme][:text]
        opts[:google_color_url] = options[:theme][:url]
      end
    end
    
    adsense_opts = opts.map do |k, v|
      v = v.is_a?(String) ? "\"#{v}\"" : v
      "#{k} = #{v};" unless v.blank?
    end.compact.sort.join("\n")
    
    content_tag(:div, [javascript_tag(adsense_opts), content_tag(:script, nil, :type => "text/javascript",
     :src => "http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js")].join("\n").html_safe, :class => "google_adsense #{type}")
  end

end

Hey,
I looked at the source data generate and i found following thing. Notice that height, slot and width are in wrong order as compared to the code provided by google. Is that creating the site to be left blank? Or do you think any other reason? Thanks in advance.

<script type="text/javascript"> // </script> <script src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

hey,

order of parameters doesn't count. Do you test it on localhost or external (public available host)?

Google tries do match ads for your content, if your host is not accessible sometimes there are no ads, just empty content. Google provide a mechanism for that: you can provide "alternate_url" parameter, and when there are no ads availalbe it loads content from specified url.

Does ads load correctly when pasting code generated by google adsense admin panel? It will answer the question where is the problem.

Thanks a lot, man. It is working fine now. I appreciate your help.

So i put the above script on a rb file then put
<%= ad_unit(:leader_board, "your-adsense-id" %>
where i want it?