help with layouts

[purpletonic]

Can anyone elaborate on how layouts work?

I've gone through the documentation, and as far I can tell I'm doing
it to the book, but none of my layouts are being picked up. I must be
doing something wrong, but I can't spot it.

I have two layouts in my layouts folder: 'default.txt' and
'film-1.txt'. Within my content folder, I have a file called index.txt
which has the following meta data:
---
layout: film-1
title: Film
created_at: 2010-03-23 16:06:18.573516 +00:00
filter:
- erb
---

Whenever I run the webby command, the index file always uses the
default template. How do I stop it from doing this, and get it using
the film template? Is there a command I need to run to initialise the
template?

Cheers,
Rich

[aimee daniells]

It sounds to me as if you're doing it right.

It's possible it might be the hyphen that's causing a problem. Try renaming it to 'film1' and see if it makes any difference. I've seen problems with hyphens and underscores in some places.

aimee

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[purpletonic]

Hi Aimee, thanks for the reply.

Still not having any luck though. What's more, if I move the layout
declaration anywhere else in the meta area except the top, I get an
error upon running 'webby rebuild'. e.g. with this code:

---

title: Film
created_at: 2010-03-23 16:06:18.573516 +00:00

layout: film1
filter:
- erb
---

I get this error:

ERROR: error loading file "content/index.txt"
ERROR: <Webby::Resources::MetaFile::Error> corrupt meta-data (perhaps
there is an errant YAML marker '---' in the file)
-- syntax error on line 4, col 0: `filter:'
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.4/lib/webby/resources/meta_file.rb:
151:in `each'

Any ideas what might be causing this?

On Mar 24, 5:53 pm, aimee daniells <aimeedanie...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> It sounds to me as if you're doing it right.
>
> It's possible it might be the hyphen that's causing a problem. Try renaming
> it to 'film1' and see if it makes any difference. I've seen problems with
> hyphens and underscores in some places.
>
> aimee
>

[Tim Pease]

On Mar 25, 2010, at 3:10 AM, purpletonic wrote:

> Hi Aimee, thanks for the reply.
>
> Still not having any luck though. What's more, if I move the layout
> declaration anywhere else in the meta area except the top, I get an
> error upon running 'webby rebuild'. e.g. with this code:
>
> ---
> title: Film
> created_at: 2010-03-23 16:06:18.573516 +00:00
> layout: film1
> filter:
> - erb
> ---
>
> I get this error:
>
> ERROR: error loading file "content/index.txt"
> ERROR: <Webby::Resources::MetaFile::Error> corrupt meta-data (perhaps
> there is an errant YAML marker '---' in the file)
> -- syntax error on line 4, col 0: `filter:'
> /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.4/lib/webby/resources/meta_file.rb:
> 151:in `each'
>
> Any ideas what might be causing this?
>

Webby is not a big fan of UTF8 characters. Make sure that your YAML delimiters (the three dashes) are really ascii characters; trailing whitespace is okay.

Blessings,
TwP

[Tim Pease]

On Mar 24, 2010, at 11:53 AM, aimee daniells wrote:

> It sounds to me as if you're doing it right.
>
> It's possible it might be the hyphen that's causing a problem. Try renaming
> it to 'film1' and see if it makes any difference. I've seen problems with
> hyphens and underscores in some places.
>

You can also quote the layout name

layout: "flim-1"

That will force it into a string. When all else fails, peruse the YAML spec http://www.yaml.org/ for the acceptable characters for strings, numerics, etc.

Blessings,
TwP