Second blog can't find posts [SOLVED]

#1

I have defined two blogs in config.rb:

activate :blog do |blog|
  blog.name = "notes"
  blog.prefix = "notes"
  blog.custom_collections = {
    category: {
      link: '/categories/{category}.html',
      template: '/notes_category.html'
    }
  }

  blog.permalink = "{year}/{month}/{day}/{title}.html"
  blog.sources = "{year}-{month}-{day}-{title}.html"
  blog.layout = "post"
  blog.summary_separator = /(READMORE)/
  blog.summary_length = 250
  blog.year_link = "{year}.html"
  blog.month_link = "{year}/{month}.html"
  blog.day_link = "{year}/{month}/{day}.html"
  blog.default_extension = ".markdown"
  blog.calendar_template = "calendar.html"
end

activate :blog do |blog|
  blog.name = "essays"
  blog.prefix = "essays"
  blog.permalink = "{year}/{month}/{day}/{title}.html"
  blog.custom_collections = {
    category: {
      link: '/categories/{category}.html',
      template: '/essays_category.html'
    }
  }
  blog.sources = "{year}-{month}-{day}-{title}.html"
  blog.layout = "essay"
  blog.summary_separator = /(READMORE)/
  blog.summary_length = 250
  blog.year_link = "{year}.html"
  blog.month_link = "{year}/{month}.html"
  blog.day_link = "{year}/{month}/{day}.html"
  blog.default_extension = ".markdown"
  blog.calendar_template = "calendar.html"
end

The first blog works, the second does not and I can’t understand why. The links layouts and everything else works. The directories are properly structures, but the listing of “essays” is empty, even though there are 4 articles in the “source/essays” directory. Any ideas where to look?

Regards,

P.

#2

How are you getting the data from the blogs in your tempates? You should use blog('notes') and blog('essays') to retrieve the different blog articles (and tags and such).

#3

Thanks for the reply @tomrutgers !

I’m using HAML. This is my “_latest_feeds.haml” partial which gets displays properly the ‘notes’ but not the ‘essays’:

/ Display multiple Blog posts
#frontblog
  %h1.section
    Notes
    %a.inline{:href => '/feed-notes.xml'}
      %i.fa.fa-rss
  - blog('notes').articles[0...10].each do |article|
    %p.hpost
      %i.fa.fa-pencil
      = link_to article.title, article.url
      %span{:class => "frdate"}
        %time{:datetime => "#{article.date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')}"}= article.date.strftime('%Y %b %d')
  %p.meta_inline{style: 'margin-left: 5%;'}
    %i.fa.fa-arrow-right
    = link_to 'browse notes archive', '/notes.html'
  %br
  %h1.section
    Essays
    %a.inline{:href => '/feed-essays.xml'}
      %i.fa.fa-rss
  - if blog('essays').articles.size > 2
    - blog('essays').articles[0...3].each do |essay|
      %p.hpost
        %i.fa.fa-leaf
        = link_to essay.title, essay.url
        %span{:class => "frdate"}
          %time{:datetime => "#{essay.date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')}"}= essay.date.strftime('%Y %b %d')
  -else
    - blog('essays').articles.each do |essay|
      %p.hpost
        %i.fa.fa-leaf
        = link_to essay.title, essay.url
        %time{:datetime => "#{essay.date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')}"}= essay.date.strftime('%Y %b %d')
  %p.meta_inline{style: 'margin-left: 5%;'}
    %i.fa.fa-arrow-right
    = link_to 'browse essays archive', '/essays.html'

The “feed-essays.xml” is exactly the same as the “feed-notes.xml” apart from the fact that builds the field from “essays”.

The essays_category template:

- listing = [];blog('essays').articles.each {|a| listing << a if a.metadata[:page]['category'] == category }
.container
  %h1.section
    = "Listing essays in category: #{category}"
  %br
  - listing.each do |essay|
    .container
      %post
        %i.fa.fa-pencil
        = link_to essay.title, essay.url
        %p.meta_inline
          = essay.date.strftime('%d %b %Y  %H:%M')

I’ve spent quite some time trying to figure out what I’m doing wrong, where the difference is between the two, but can’t see any real difference.

#4

After a bit of debugging, I noticed that about 40% of posts in notes blogs are part of “blog(‘notes’).articles” object. The other 60% is not displayed. The “blog(‘essays’)” exists but has no articles. Since I’m upgrading from v3, I wonder if there is something obvious missing from the Markdown posts that are not visible.

#5

The problem was that some files had extension .markdown while we need .html.markdown for posts to be properly rendered.

Thanks for the help!

Command to rename files:

for i in $(ls -1|grep -v html);do mv $i ${i%.*}.html.markdown ; done

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#6

Excellent debugging :sweat_smile:. Glad you figured it out.