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blog_helper
BlogHelper
Having a closer look at ruby based blogging platforms like serious and toto, I missed some functionality.
This a a collection of tools usable in both platforms.
Features
- tag your posts
- use seo friendly page titles
- use the disqus comment counter
- a workaround for serious allowing you to use generic yaml fields
Installation
It's a piece of cake: just use the gem tool to get going with the blog_helper: sudo gem install blog_helper
If you want to use features that rely on accessing the http requests like the tag feature, you'll need to use the toto_prerelease.
Please follow the instrucions there to do so.
Usage
Piece of cake, again: all you have to do is use <% require 'blog_helper'%> in your .rhtml or .erb file and call the corresponding methods.
SEO friendly titles
For example, to use seo friendly titles, your layout.rhtml should be looking like this:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<% require 'blog_helper'
page_title = BlogHelper::seo_friendly_title(@path, title, 'yourSitesTitle.com')
%>
<title><%= page_title %></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="<%= page_title %> - feed" href="/index.xml" />
.
.
.
Tags
Adding the tagging feature requires the toto_prerelease as mentioned above, since we need the http request to apply our little hack.
To add a list of tags to your article, just use a custom yaml attribute:
title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
author: Lyman Frank Baum
date: 1900/05/17
tags: hacks, love, rock 'n' roll
Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry,
who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.
Next, you need a place to show the tag links, for example the index.rhtml:
<section id="articles">
<% require 'blog_helper' %>
<% for article in articles[0...10] %>
<article class="post">
<header>
<h1><a href="<%= article.path %>"><%= article.title %></a></h1>
<span class="descr"><%= article.date %></span><% 10.times { %> <%}%>
<span class="tags">
<%= BlogHelper::tag_link_list(article[:tags]) %>
</span><% 10.times { %> <%}%>
.
.
.
And again: piece of caked ;-). Now all we need to add is a page that displays articles belonging to a ceratin tag:
Create a page called tagged.rhtml in your templates/pages directory that looks like this:
<%
require 'blog_helper'
desired_tag = BlogHelper::desired_tag(env["QUERY_STRING"])
%>
<h1>Posts filed under '<%= desired_tag %>': </h1>
<ul>
<% BlogHelper::desired_articles(@articles, desired_tag).each do |article| %>
<li>
<span class="descr"><a href="<%= article.path %>" alt="<%= article.title %>"><%= article.title %></a><br/></span>
</li>
<% end %>
</ul>
<br/>
Now, you did most likely implement a tag listing on your toto blog. Congrats!
short url (via bit.ly)
To use a bit.ly shortened URL, just call the followin function inside a .rhtml file:
<%= BlogHelper::short_url_bitly(<url>, <bit.ly login name>, <bit.ly api key>) %>
disqus comment counter
Basically just adds the necessary java script to enable the disqus comment counter. For best performance, place it near the end of the page:
<%= BlogHelper::disqus_comment_count_js(@config[:disqus]) %>
</body>
</html>
Mind the usage of @config[:disqus], this enables configuration via config.ru.
To access the comment count, use #disqus_thread at the end of the permalink to the post & it will be replaced with the disqus comment count:
<a href="<%= article.path %>#disqus_thread"> </a>
Will result in the number of comments of the article the permalink posts to.
serious custom yaml field reader
TBD... I have to refer to the source & ri for now.
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