Resources are the content that gets transformed or copied when building your site. Pages, javascripts, and stylesheets are all types of resources.
Custom Resources
You can even make your own custom resource by using the resource method:
# config.rb
resource :post
Massimo will look in the posts directory for any files and transform them much like Pages. By default The posts will be available at the /posts url. For instance:
post = Post.new('posts/first-port.md')
post.url # '/posts/first-post/'
The location of the posts directory and the posts url can be customized:
# config.rb
config.posts_path = 'blog'
config.posts_url = '/blog'
resource :post
Now all the posts will be located in the blog directory and and the urls will be prefixed with '/blog'.
post = Post.new('blog/first-port.md')
post.url # '/blog/first-post/'
What if you wanted to include the published date in the url? Simple, just add a url method in the resource:
# config.rb
resource :post do
def url
"/blog/#{published_at.strftime('%Y/%m/%d')}/#{title.downcase.gsub(/\s+/, '-')}"
end
end
Now, given the following Post:
# posts/first-post.md
---
title: My First Post
published_at: 2010-04-28
---
etc...
It will have the following url:
post = Post.new('posts/first-port.md')
post.url # '/blog/2010/04/08/my-first-post/'
Resources are like Models
You can use Resources in a very similar way to how you would use a model in Rails. Let's say you have a list of users to display on a page, but they don't need individual pages.
# config.rb
resource :user do
unprocessable
end
The unprocessable macro tells massimo to not process the user resources. Now you can have a bunch of user files:
# users/bob.yml
name: Bob
# users/sue.yml
name: Sue
# users/jack.yml
name: Jack
Note: If a resource is a YAML file, the entire file's content will be treated as YAML. The front matter black is not necessary.
And on the page you need to list the Users, you could get an array of the resources by calling User.all:
# pages/index.haml
- User.all.each do |user|
%p= user.name
