Possible to automatically generate link lists for menus and footer?

#1

So I’m using the following in my config.rb to automatically generate pages for a variety of products defined in YAML files:

data.products.custom.each do |type, entry|
  proxy "/products/custom/#{type}/index.html", "templates/products/custom/template.html", :locals => { :entry => entry }, :ignore => true
end

Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how would I go further and automate the population of say menus and footers with these pages like this for example;

Home Products
     - custom entry 1
     - custom entry 2
     - custom entry 3
     - etc
#2

Answered it myself in the question really.

<% data.products.custom.each do |type, entry| %>
    <li>(for example) /products/custom/<%= type %>/index.html</li>
<% end %>

Simple as that? Not sure what the ‘entry’ variable is for but it doesn’t break anything having it there so hey ho.

#3

Yeah, simple as that! Pretty sure type returns the yaml filename in this case, entry the actual data.

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