Quick'n'dirty Jekyll plugin for sorted cycle

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Jekyll sorted_for plugin

Quick'n'dirty Jekyll plugin for sorted cycle.

Install

Copy sorted_for.rb to _plugins/ directory of your Jekyll site.

Usage

Instead of for in templates use sorted_for and add sort_by parameter with property you want to sort by. Also supports reversed parameter as the original for tag.

{% sorted_for node in site.pages reversed sort_by:weight %}
  {{ node.title }}
{% endsorted_for %}

To use custom sort property (eg. weight as in example above) add it to YAML Front Matter of your pages - see https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/YAML-Front-Matter

sorted_for.rb

module Jekyll
  class SortedForTag < Liquid::For
    def render(context)
      sorted_collection = context[@collection_name].dup
      sorted_collection.sort_by! { |i| i.to_liquid[@attributes['sort_by']] }

      sorted_collection_name = "#{@collection_name}_sorted".sub('.', '_')
      context[sorted_collection_name] = sorted_collection
      @collection_name = sorted_collection_name

      super
    end

    def end_tag
      'endsorted_for'
    end
  end
end

Liquid::Template.register_tag('sorted_for', Jekyll::SortedForTag)

Forked this as https://gist.github.com/3812259 and added a few changes:

• Add sorted_for_test
• Allow sorted_for to handle arrays of primitives
• Add sorted_keys_for tag to iterate over hash keys

Forked also as https://gist.github.com/cloudshark/5313141 because I needed to gsub the sorted_collection_name in my case where I had more than one dot already in the collection name