Is it possible to have directories? about rib

[srid]

Yes, Rib should already do this. In a private project of mine I have a/2019/12/25.md => b/2019/12/25.html which is done by this code:

entries <-
  Rib.buildHtmlMulti M.parse [[relfile|*/*/*.md|]] $ renderPage . Target_Page

Does it not already work for you? If so, could you show your code?

[srid]

Rib uses Development.Shake.FilePattern, which also supports ** (double star) to match an arbitrary number of path components. You can see that Rib already uses this to copy over static files:

Rib.buildStaticFiles [[relfile|static/**|]]

[JonathanReeve]

When using the Rib sample pattern, like this:

    generateSite = do
      -- Copy over the static files
      Rib.buildStaticFiles [[relfile|static/**|]]
      -- Build individual markup sources, generating .html for each.
      docs <- Rib.buildHtmlMulti patterns $ renderPage . Page_Doc

      -- Build an index.html linking to the aforementioned files.
      Rib.buildHtml [relfile|index.html|] $ renderPage $ Page_Index docs

    -- File patterns to build, using the associated markup parser
    patterns = Map.fromList [ ([relfile|**/*.md|], Some Rib.Markup_MMark)]

It throws the error:

* Raised the exception:
dist/about/index.html: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

...which is unusual, because of course it doesn't exist yet—it hasn't built it yet. I get the same error when I use */*.md as the pattern.

[JonathanReeve]

The site I'm trying to build is here. It has pages like about/index.md and texts/index.md. Maybe there could be a rule in Shake that would allow for pretty URLs? That is, rendering /about.md as /about/index.html as in Jekyll.

[srid]

The site I'm trying to build is here.

This is most useful to share; thanks!

dist/about/index.html: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

This was bug #63 that got fixed recently. Advancing rib in default.nix should resolve it; I opened a PR here: open-editions/open-editions.org#3

It has pages like about/index.md and texts/index.md. Maybe there could be a rule in Shake that would allow for pretty URLs? That is, rendering /about.md as /about/index.html as in Jekyll.

This is certainly doable. Rib assumes that /foo/bar.md will map to /foo/bar.html. buildHtmlMulti is defined in a handful of lines like this:

buildHtmlMulti parser pats r = do
  input <- ribInputDir
  fs <- getDirectoryFiles' input pats
  forP fs $ \k -> do
    outfile <- liftIO $ replaceExtension ".html" k
    buildHtml parser outfile k r

Note that outfile is same as source path, except for file extension. You can basically copy paste this function in your Main.hs and customize it however you want. I gave it a go here: open-editions/open-editions.org#5

I suppose buildHtmlMulti can be customized to take a function FilePath -> FilePath that determines this outfile. Or, better FilePath -> Slug using the slug type (basically a newtype over FilePath) proposed by @joelmccracken in Rib chat room at Zulip.

[JonathanReeve]

Thanks for the PR! This is great.