Directory not being properly ignored

#1

So, I’m running up against an issue which is really throwing me. I currently have bower installing components to /source/dependencies

In my config.rb I’m ignoring that entire directory, as well as appending it to Sprockets so that I can require some libs from within it:

activate :directory_indexes
activate :sprockets

after_configuration do  
  @bower_config = JSON.parse(IO.read("#{root}/.bowerrc"))
  @bower_assets_path = File.join "#{root}", @bower_config["directory"]
  sprockets.append_path @bower_assets_path
end

ignore 'dependencies/*'

Now, when attempting to build, I receive a stack trace with this at the top:

'require': cannot load such file -- less (LoadError)

I’ve tracked this back to a lib that I have sitting in that dependencies directory - Jcrop. If I remove this directory the build runs fine. My question is, why is Middleman attempting to parse any of the files in source/dependencies if I’m ignoring the entire directory?

If anyone can provide some insight I’d really appreciate it.

#2

I’m not sure of the exact syntax when not using regex, but should it not be ignore 'dependencies/**/*' if you want to ignore both subdirectories and files?

Or try a regular expression instead /^dependencies\// if in source or /\/dependencies\// if further down.

#3

Thanks @tommysundstrom. So, I tried both of those and still no dice. The bizarre thing is that if I explicitly ignore less files:

ignore 'dependencies/**/*.less'

Then the build works great. I feel like I have a pretty big misunderstanding of how the whole asset pipeline works in Middleman because of this.

#4

I have no idea why that is so, but maybe you can find some clues here:

https://www.relishapp.com/middleman/middleman-core/docs/ignoring-paths