Map data file items to current_page data in partial and use it to loop through items

#1

Hi, I do not have much ruby experience, so I hope anybody can give some guidance on how to create the following:

I want to create a short loop function to load a specific (short) menu. The content of the menu is different on each page, but the markup is the same. I have a page where I have a local data item called “action-menu”. Its value calls the data set I want to load from the data file action.yml. In the item I have 3 items per data set. The menu itself is put in a partial, so I can use it on any page.

I think there must a simple way to create an each function to match the current_page data with the corresponding data set and load that data set (eg. - [‘home’ => ‘home’, ‘news_an’ => ‘news_an’, etc…].each do …

So I want to

  • use a frontmatter variable to load a data file set
  • not having to repeat the markup, but just loop trough an array

Here is the content of the files (example):

action.yml:

home:
 -
  id: "#upcoming-events"
  label: "Events"
  icon: "event"
 -
  id: "#welcome"
  label: "Welcome"
  icon: "info"
 -
  id: "#content"
  label: "Updates"
  icon: "news"
news_an:
 -
  id: "#content"
  label: "Article"
  icon: "news"
 -
  id: "#go-to-group"
  label: "Go to group"
  icon: "users"
 -
  id: "#create-account"
  label: "Create account"
  icon: "user-add"

index.html.haml
—
action_menu: home
—

_actionmenu.haml

.action-menu
  %ul.tabs
    - if current_page.data.action_menu == "home"
      - for item in data.action.home
        %li
          %a.tab{:href => "#{item.id}"}
            %i.icon{:class => "icon-#{item.icon}"}
            #{item.label}
    - if current_page.data.action_menu == "news_an"
      - for item in data.action.news_an
        %li
          %a.tab{:href => "#{item.id}"}
            %i.icon{:class => "icon-#{item.icon}"}
            #{item.label}
#2

Is this correct? data.action[current_page.data.action_menu.to_sym]

.action-menu
%ul.tabs
- for item in data.action[current_page.data.action_menu.to_sym]
  %li
    %a.tab{:href => "#{item.id}"}
      %i.icon{:class => "icon-#{item.icon}"}
      #{item.label}