Post publishing plugin for Jekyll
module Jekyll | |
class PostPublisher < Generator | |
safe false | |
def replace(filepath, regexp, *args, &block) | |
content = File.read(filepath).gsub(regexp, *args, &block) | |
File.open(filepath, 'wb') { |file| file.write(content) } | |
end | |
def generate(site) | |
@files = Dir["_publish/*"] | |
@files.each_with_index { |f,i| | |
now = DateTime.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") | |
replace(f, /^date: unpublished/mi) { |match| "date: \"" + now + "\"" } | |
now = Date.today.strftime("%Y-%m-%d") | |
File.rename(f, "_posts/#{now}-#{File.basename(f)}") | |
} | |
end | |
end | |
end |
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A great plugin, I've found it to be a life saver. I had a quick question though, is there any reason to use |
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Great little plugin, saved me from trying to write the same thing for myself (it wouldn't have been as elegant). I did fork and make a slight change - instead of looking for _publish and _posts in the current directory, I prepended the site.source variable. So:
and
I almost never execute my build command from within my site's source folder, instead providing the source as a command line variable. I tested and it still works now either way you generate.