Converting json based articles to html files for jekyll posts.

jekyll-ed.rb

require 'json'

#parse the json file containing all the articles 
posts = JSON.parse File.read("<article>.json")

#now for each article we will create a jekyll post
posts.each do |post|
	title = post['title'] #the title of a post
	content = post['content'] #the content or description of the post
	image_url = post['image_url'] #the image url if it is available of the post (It is by default an empty string anyways)
	video_url = post['video_url']  #the video url of a post (same thing as above, preset to an empty string. )
	created = post['created_at'] #date of creation to be used when naming jekyll post file
	
	#creating the file name
	out_file = File.new(created + "-" + title.gsub(/[^0-9A-Za-z]/, '-') + ".html" , "w")
	
	#creating the contents of the post
	def body(title, content, image_url, video_url )
		#value is content of the file. 
		value = ""
		value << "---\n"
		value << "layout: post\n"
		value << "title: " + title + "\n"
		value << "---\n"

		if content != ''
			value << content
		end
		if image_url != ''
			value << "<img src='" + content +"' class='post_image' />"
		end
		if video_url != ''
			value << video_url
		end

		return value
		
	end

	#write the file
	out_file.puts(body(title, content, image_url, video_url ))
	out_file.close
	
end