Is there a way to pull in some archives on an article page?

[benjamincharity]

Basically wanting to pull in last seven articles into a sidebar.

I was trying something like:

%ol
  - unless archives.empty?
    - archives[0..6].each do |archive|
      %li
        %a{:href => "#{ archive.path }"}= archive.title

but apparently 'archives' isn't accessible outside the archives template? Anyone have a way around this (I'm still pretty new to Ruby and Toto, so my apologies if this is right in front of me!)

Thanks

[ixti]

In fact both Archives and Article are running in the Context. And Context has @articles property, so you can do something like this:

<% unless @artiles.empty? %>
<ol>
  <% @articles[0..6].each do |a| %>
  <li><a href="<%= a.url %>"><%= a.title %></a></li>
  <% end %>
</ol>
<% end %>

[benjamincharity]

Hmm I tried:

%article.archives
  %h1 Archives
  %ol
    - unless @articles.empty?
      - articles[0..6].each do |a|
        %li
          %a{:href => "#{ a.url }"}= a.title

And it's returning a NoMethodError:

NoMethodError at /2011/03/08/the-art-of-code/ undefined method `articles' for #Toto::Site::Context:0x007ffebab46c78

[lyslim]

I believe archives can only be used under route root or say index, guess this could only be changed if u hacking the gem... So here's my workaround:

<% if @path == '/'%> <%archives.......%> <%end%>

Let archives displays in sidebar only when it is on page index. Cheers.

[ixti]

@benjamincharity yes, that's true! there's no such method articles of Toto::Site::Context, but there's property @articles. You are checking property iin the condition unless @articles.empty?, but then tries access method further articles[0..6].

Correct variant for you should be:

%article.archives
  %h1 Archives
  %ol
    - unless @articles.empty?
      - @articles[0..6].each do |a|
        %li
          %a{:href => "#{ a.url }"}= a.title

Alternatively you can extend Toto in config.ru rackup file like this:

module Toto
  class Site
    class Context
      attr_reader :articles
    end
  end
end

In this case you'll be able to access @articles as articles :))

UPDATE I'm not familiar with HAML, but I believe that this line:

%a{:href => "#{ a.url }"}= a.title

Can be written as

%a{:href => a.url}= a.title

[ixti]

@lyslim you are partially right :)) Except few mistakes :))

Everything (except direct pages) are running in the Toto::Site::Context which stores whole array of all articles as @articles property. So you can access @articles property anywhere. For more details refer to the go method of Toto::Site: https://github.com/cloudhead/toto/blob/master/lib/toto.rb#L100

So as you can see, any request is being processed under Context class. So you can see it's contructor and find @articles property: https://github.com/cloudhead/toto/blob/master/lib/toto.rb#L154

On the other and, archives is really accessible on archives and index pages only, refer to go method to see why (this property is assigned only in few places`.

[benjamincharity]

Ahh thank you all for your help! Still very new to all of this but I'm loving it!

@ixti, your fix worked well! (and kudos on the haml link syntax; much cleaner!)

[sscarduzio]

Thanks everybody, but hey, his worked much better for me:

• show just posts dated in the past (enable scheduled posts),
• use .path instead of .url so it doesn't break my dev webserver :9292 special port,
• fixed a typo in the paste of ixti,

• Unordered list tag instead of Ordered list tag.

  <% unless @articles.empty? %>
      <ul>
        <% @articles[0..6].select {|a| a[:date] <= Date.today}.each do |a| %>
        <li><a href="<%= a.path %>"><%= a.title %></a></li>
        <% end %>
      </ul>
   <% end %>