[webgen-users] symbolic link to a directory with ruby 1.9 and UTF-8 encoding

[Damien Robert]

Hello everyone.

For my website, I use a lot of symbolic links. There is no problem with
symbolic links to a file, however a symbolic link to a directory is not
treated by webgen as a real directory.

I have tried to use in the config file:
patterns:
Directory:
add: - /docs/common
but it does not seem to work (the files in docs/common/ are not generated).

Currently what i do is i use something like
sources: - ["/docs/", "Webgen::Source::FileSystem", "../common/docs"]
and it works great!

By the way, i tried to add a pattern to copy all files in the doc directory:

patterns:
Copy:
add:
- /docs/**/*
But /docs/**/* does not match the files in /docs/*
(that is only the files under a subdirectory of docs are copied).

Is that the intended behavior?

(I also get a warning for subdirectories:
WARN -- Node already exists: source = /docs/foo/ | path = /docs/foo/ |
alcn = /docs/foo/

I think this is because the node /docs/foo/ is created twice, once by the
directory handler, and once by the copy handler, apparently docs/**/*
catches /docs/foo/)

Cheers!
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[Thomas Leitner]

Hi,

> I have tried to use in the config file:
> patterns:
> Directory:
> add: - /docs/common
> but it does not seem to work (the files in docs/common/ are not
> generated).

It seems that `Dir.glob` which is used to get the files for a
filesystem source doesn't handle directory links correctly, i.e. it
only returns the link. However, when checking `File.directory?(link)`
it returns +true+. So somewhere Ruby knows that it is a link pointing
to a directory but it does not handle it right all the time.

> Currently what i do is i use something like
> sources: - ["/docs/", "Webgen::Source::FileSystem", "../common/docs"]
> and it works great!

If you hadn't included that I would have recommended it! ;-)

> By the way, i tried to add a pattern to copy all files in the doc
> directory:
>
> patterns:
> Copy:
> add:
> - /docs/**/*
> But /docs/**/* does not match the files in /docs/*
> (that is only the files under a subdirectory of docs are copied).
>
> Is that the intended behavior?

No, not really. I have fixed this in my local repo. You can circumvent
the problem by additionally adding the pattern `/docs/*`.

> (I also get a warning for subdirectories:
> WARN -- Node already exists: source = /docs/foo/ | path = /docs/foo/
> | alcn = /docs/foo/
>
> I think this is because the node /docs/foo/ is created twice, once
> by the directory handler, and once by the copy handler, apparently
> docs/**/* catches /docs/foo/)

You are right. Since you tell the copy handler to use all the paths
underneath /docs/, it also tries to add directory path. If you only
have files with extensions, you could use the pattern `/docs/**/*.*`
instead.

-- Thomas