How to skip processing certain templates?

#1

I’d like to be able to specify a directory within source/ in which all files will be served as they are, without being processed by any of the templating engines. In my case, there’s a bunch of markdown files, which middleman very helpfully converts to html (which is precisely what I don’t want).

Alternately, is there at least a way to disable processing of files by extension?

Thank you in advance!

Ignore Readme.md
#2

One solution could be to not have them inside the source directory, and upload them to the server either manually or by modifying the script that deploys the site.

#3

Tommy, I’ve considered that, but what about the dev environment?

#4

You could use a different extension, Middleman responds to: .markdown, .mdown, .md, .mkd and .mkdn. If the extension is unknown, it should output it as plain text.

Second option, store as text (file.txt) then proxy to it for the output url:

page "file.md", :proxy => "file.txt"

Third option, disable markdown support in Middleman:

::Tilt.mappings.delete('md')
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#5

Thomas, thank you for your response. The first two options don’t seem right (it is a markdown file, giving it a different extension is wrong), but the third one will do in my case.

Thanks!

#6

(I’m new to Discourse - there doesn’t seem to be a way for me to close the topic or mark it as resolved?)

#7

I’m using middleman 3.3.7, and this way doesn’t work. I’m trying to put reveal.js slides in my source directory.

Below is my solution now:

ignore 'slides/*'
after_build do
  `cp -R source/slides build`
end