Pretty permalinks not working

[andyra]

I'm trying out this plugin to get pretty permalinks (example.com/about instead of example.com/about.html).

When I run grunt assemble, I expect docs/pages/about.hbs to compile to docs/build/about/index.html, but instead it's compiling to docs/build/about.html. I've followed the example in the docs and my Gruntfile.coffee looks like so:

assemble:
  options:
    flatten: true
    plugins: ['assemble-middleware-permalinks']
    layoutdir: 'docs/layouts'
    assets: 'dist/assets'
    partials: 'docs/partials/*.hbs'
    helpers: 'docs/helpers/*.js'
    data: ['docs/data/*.{json,yml}']
  docs:
    options:
      permalinks:
        preset: 'pretty'
    files: [
      expand: true
      cwd: 'docs/pages'
      src: ['**/*.hbs']
      dest: 'docs/build/'
    ]

The plugin doesn't seem to be doing anything at all. Is there something I'm missing here?

[doowb]

Try using assemble-contrib-permalinks for assemble 0.4.x

[andyra]

Ah, good catch. OK, now my package.json dependencies look like so:

"assemble": "^0.4.42",
"assemble-contrib-permalinks": "^0.3.6",
"grunt": "^0.4.5",

I changed my Grunfile to:

assemble:
  options:
    flatten: true
    plugins: ['assemble-contrib-permalinks']
    ...

Now when I run grunt:assemble, I get the following error:

Warning: Arguments to path.resolve must be strings Use --force to continue.

[andyra]

Note: I'm getting this same error when I clone the assemble-middleware-permalinks repo, install npm dependencies, and run grunt:assemble.

[doowb]

Check your node_modules and make sure assemble-contrib-permalinks is version 0.3.6. I have that setup on:

Mac OSX 10.9.5
node 0.10.29
npm 1.4.26

Maybe something else is conflicting.

[andyra]

Yep, the package.json file for assemble-contrib-permalinks is telling the the version number is 0.3.6. I'm set up with:

Mac OSX 10.9.5
node 0.10.36
npm 1.4.28

The only other npm modules I have in the project are grunt, assemble, and load-grunt-tasks, so I don't think there should be any conflicts.

[doowb]

I updated and it's working fine. How are you using load-grunt-tasks? Can you post the entire gruntfile?

[andyra]

I'm using load-grunt-tasks so I don't have to manually include new plugins in the gruntfile.

module.exports = (grunt) ->
  grunt.initConfig
    pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json')

    assemble:
      options:
        flatten: true
        plugins: ['assemble-contrib-permalinks']
        layoutdir: 'docs/layouts'
        assets: 'dist/assets'
        partials: 'docs/partials/*.hbs'
        helpers: 'docs/helpers/*.js'
        data: ['docs/data/*.{json,yml}']
      site:
        options:
          permalinks:
            preset: 'pretty'
        files: [
          expand: true
          cwd: 'docs/pages'
          src: ['**/*.hbs']
          dest: 'docs/build/'
        ]

  # Load plugins
  require('load-grunt-tasks') grunt,
    pattern: ['grunt-*', 'assemble']

  grunt.registerTask 'default', ['assemble']

Keep in mind that I'm getting the same error when running grunt assemble on the examples included in the repo, so I don't think it's specific to this project.

[akileez]

try this:

# Load plugins
  require('load-grunt-tasks') grunt,
    pattern: ['grunt-*', 'assemble*']

  grunt.registerTask 'default', ['assemble']

basically, wildcard the assemble string to pick up the plugin.

[andyra]

Ah, that did the trick. Thanks! I'm not sure why I was having the same issue on the assemble-middleware-permalinks repo, but fixing it here works for my project.