Get Frontmatter Content (all the parts minus the data)

#1

If I have a Markdown file like this:

---
title: The Title
---

# Some other title

Some content.

it is easy to get the Frontmatter data with current_page.data.title but how would I get just the:

# Some other title

Some content

Part of the file. I tried current_page.content but that did not work. In the end I ended up using current_page.source_file and then manually stripping out the Frontmatter part but that is just ugly. It seems that Frontmatter should return both the data and the other content as well. I checked the Frontmatter code but most of the methods needed for this were private. I was just wondering if there is an obvious solution I am missing due to being newer to Middleman. If not do other people think this would be useful I could create a pull request to make current_page.content return just the Markdown content of the page minus the Frontmatter data.

The reason I need this is I want to parse out a table of contents for my page. The TOC generator though chokes on the Frontmatter data so I have to pass it clean Markdown.

Thanks
David

#2

Perhaps not exactly what you’re looking for, but the body (the part that’s not the frontmatter) of the source file is available within the before_render hook.

If your goal is to add a table of contents by modifying the Markdown, you could do something like:

before_render do |body, path, locs, template_class|
  next body unless template_class == Middleman::Renderers::KramdownTemplate

  markdown_toc_for(body) + body
end
#3

You can also just use yield. Example:

<%= your_helper yield %>

#4

This is an old thread, but in case anyone stumbles upon it, here is the snippet I use:

content = Middleman::Util::Data.parse(resource.file_descriptor, config[:frontmatter_delims])[1]
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