Weekly summary using calendar plugin

[saravanak]

I posted this on Stackoverflow, but no response as of now. I am not able to login to the middleman forum, hence posting this here, as this may be tagged as a 'feature'.

This question is related to middleman-blog. I would like to have a weekly summary of the blogs in addition to the year, month and day (optional) templates. I had a look at the middleman-blog extensions, which has the calendar_pages.rb doing this generation of calendar summaries.

So the question is, which of the following options is best:

• I go for a "replica" extension which does the same grouping (see https://github.com/middleman/middleman-blog/blob/master/lib/middleman-blog/calendar_pages.rb#L46). This has the disadvantage that the grouping will have to be done twice: once by the calendar pages extension and once by the 'replica' extension or
• I write an extension to the calendar_pages extension which redefines the manipulate_resource_list and friends? or
• Take the resource with page_type as year and iterate through them.But this has a disadvantage that for 'week' to work, the 'year' template should be used by the user. I would want to have the ability to use week irrespective of year template being used.

I am in favour of the second approach, since it adds to an existing related functionality. But I am worried by redefinition of methods. Is 'extending' calendar_pages a good practice in ruby?

[tdreyno]

I think the replica is the best approach. If you find a lot of overlay, we can move that functionality into a shared location.

[iwarner]

@saravanak How did you get on with this? Would be great to see the final code or PR request so we can look at merging.

Please re-open if you can provide.