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Re: [nesta] Next & prev links

From:

Graham Ashton

Date:

2011-04-12 @ 21:30

On 11 Apr 2011, at 15:50, Tommy Palmer <hi@tommyp.org> wrote:

> How would I go about creating next and previous links for articles based
on the date?

You'll need to write helper methods in your app.rb file that works out 
what the next and previous articles are, and then add next/previous links 
to your page template. You'll also need to copy the templates into a local
views folder so that you can edit them. See these docs:

http://nestacms.com/docs/design/editing-default-templates

To write the helper methods, have a look at the find_articles method on 
the Page class:
https://github.com/gma/nesta/blob/master/lib/nesta/models.rb

It will return an array of page objects for every page on your site, 
sorted by date. If you find the index of the current page in that array, 
the next and previous will be easily available to you.

Make a couple of helper methods that use this sorted array to extract and 
return the next/previous articles and you should be all set. Stick your 
helpers in your app.rb file:

module Nesta
 class App
   helpers do
     def next_article
       # Ruby code here
     end

     def previous_article
       # Ruby code here
     end
   end
 end 
end

Let us know how you get on — if you get it working it'd make a great guest
blog post! ;-)