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list files in directory by Chris Malek
- Re: [nesta] list files in directory by Graham Ashton
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list files in directory

From:: Chris Malek
Date:: 2011-10-04 @ 14:41

I have been playing with Nesta and overall I really like the
simplicity.   There is one thing I can't seem to figure out but it
seems that it should be really easy with the Page class methods.

Let's say I have a "knowledge base" sitting at:
"content/knowledge-base/index.haml"

On this index.haml page I want to list all pages that are in the
knowledge-base directory.   So if I had several pages like this.


content/knowledge-base/really-cool-page1.textile
content/knowledge-base/really-cool-page2.textile
content/knowledge-base/really-cool-page3.textile
content/knowledge-base/really-cool-page4.textile


I want to be able to get a listing of those pages and loop through
each one and display a link.

I tried several things in the index.haml file.

= Nesta::Page.find_by_path(@page.abspath).pages.join('-')

The statement above outputs nothing and I checked that "@page.abspath"
==> "/knowledge-base"

= @page.pages.join("-")

The statement outputs nothing.  I thought this should output all the
pages in the same directory and maybe the subdirectory.


The funny things is that @pages.categories is also also empty but in
my index.haml I have do have the following line

categories: test, test2, test3


I am emailing only after looking through nesta.com and nesta source on
github and looking through this mailing list archive.  I must be
missing something simple. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.



Thanks in advance.
Chris Malek

Re: [nesta] list files in directory

From:: Graham Ashton
Date:: 2011-10-04 @ 14:50

On 4 Oct 2011, at 15:41, Chris Malek wrote:

> The funny things is that @pages.categories is also also empty but in
> my index.haml I have do have the following line
> 
> categories: test, test2, test3

The only thing you've done wrong is that you've put the relationship in 
the wrong files. Add this to each of your pages that should be in the 
knowledge-base category:

  Categories: knowledge-base

Also make sure that your files are inside content/pages/, rather than content/.

> = @page.pages.join("-")
> 
> The statement outputs nothing.  I thought this should output all the
> pages in the same directory and maybe the subdirectory.

It doesn't work like that; Nesta only looks at the relationships that you 
define via the Categories metadata key. Listing contents of directories 
would sometimes be useful, but it isn't always what you want so I decided 
it wasn't flexible enough.

@page.pages will list all the pages that specify @page's path in their 
Categories metadata.

@page.categories is different; it returns a list of page objects, one for 
each of the page's that @page has specified in it's own Categories 
metadata field.

Re: [nesta] list files in directory

From:: Chris Malek
Date:: 2011-10-04 @ 16:03

I knew I was not grasping some nesta concept. I did not quite
understand the category concept yet but I think I am starting to see
your design.

I think maybe having a dash in the categories is causing a blow up.
I keep getting this error after implementing the changes to the
categories.

NoMethodError at /knowledge-base
undefined method `downcase' for nil:NilClass
file: models.rb location: block in pages line: 288

I created a "test" directory and was able to get the behavior I am
looking for with @page.pages so I am thinking it is that dash in the
category name.   I am pointing over an existing website and I want to
keep the URLs the same so I can't easily remove the dash in the url.

I will dig around some more in the code to see why it is blowing up on
that dash or if I made some other mistake.

Thanks for the quick reply.

I actually did have my files on content/page I just messed up in the email.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Graham Ashton <graham@effectif.com> wrote:
> On 4 Oct 2011, at 15:41, Chris Malek wrote:
>
>> The funny things is that @pages.categories is also also empty but in
>> my index.haml I have do have the following line
>>
>> categories: test, test2, test3
>
> The only thing you've done wrong is that you've put the relationship in 
the wrong files. Add this to each of your pages that should be in the 
knowledge-base category:
>
>  Categories: knowledge-base
>
> Also make sure that your files are inside content/pages/, rather than content/.
>
>> = @page.pages.join("-")
>>
>> The statement outputs nothing.  I thought this should output all the
>> pages in the same directory and maybe the subdirectory.
>
>
> It doesn't work like that; Nesta only looks at the relationships that 
you define via the Categories metadata key. Listing contents of 
directories would sometimes be useful, but it isn't always what you want 
so I decided it wasn't flexible enough.
>
> @page.pages will list all the pages that specify @page's path in their 
Categories metadata.
>
> @page.categories is different; it returns a list of page objects, one 
for each of the page's that @page has specified in it's own Categories 
metadata field.
>

-- 
Chris Malek
chris.r.malek@gmail.com
760.230.8625

Re: [nesta] list files in directory

From:: Graham Ashton
Date:: 2011-10-04 @ 16:15

On 4 Oct 2011, at 17:03, Chris Malek wrote:

> I think maybe having a dash in the categories is causing a blow up.
> I keep getting this error after implementing the changes to the
> categories.
> 
> NoMethodError at /knowledge-base
> undefined method `downcase' for nil:NilClass
> file: models.rb location: block in pages line: 288

Do you mean having "-" within the path of a page is a problem? If so, it's
not. See nestacms.com's content for examples:

https://raw.github.com/gma/nestacms.com/master/content/pages/docs/creating-content/changing-the-markdown-processor.mdown

It looks like you've created a page that doesn't have a heading set at the
top of the page. Every page needs a heading, or Nesta goes pop. The error 
message could be more useful...

The code that's blowing at line 288 of models.rb says:

          x.heading.downcase <=> y.heading.downcase

Re: [nesta] list files in directory

From:: Chris Malek
Date:: 2011-10-04 @ 16:31

Doh!  You are correct, missing an h1 tag.  Thanks again.