How to write rules specific to item metadata?

[Pradeep Kumar]

Hi,

I think I have this question as I am a ruby newbie.

I would like to know how to write Rules like

compile "*" where item.kind='article'

which will apply to all items with their kind set to 'article' in the metadata.

Thanks
Pradeep

[tenable]

> I would like to know how to write Rules like
>
> compile "*" where item.kind='article'
>
> which will apply to all items with their kind set to 'article' in the metadata.

Hi Pradeep,

I'm new to Nanoc, but I think you're better off not using an item
attribute and instead putting your articles in a subfolder of /
content, such as /content/articles/

Then in your rules you would do something like:

compile 'articles/*' do

end

[tenable]

But if you still want to use attributes, I imagine something like this
should do the trick:

compile '*' do
if @item[:kind] == 'article'

else

end
end

[Denis Defreyne]

Hi,

This is the recommended approach, with one small change: it's not
"@item" but "item", so:

compile '*' do
if item[:kind] == 'article'
...
else
...
end
end

Regards,

Denis

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Denis Defreyne
denis.d...@stoneship.org

[Pradeep Kumar]

Thanks tenable and Denis for the solution.

@tenable, I was aware of the path based rule approach, but prefer to
keep these information in the metadata instead of paths used for
implying some meaning.