TecnoYucas' programmable publisher

[sadasant]

Hello sir,

So you told me you had two Yucas to collaborate, but hey, the site is under construction, so let's take this issue as an opportunity: let's build a programmable publisher.

The problem is this: Given the existence of Markdown files (file.mkd) with a future date, there must be a way to make it available only after that day is reached.

Having the above statement, let's take a look to the whole picture:

• We're working on a git repository over github.
• Github offers free hosting with Jekyll.
• Jekyll is intended to be used with minimal changes, barely mere configuration changes and then just publish your content.
• Jekyll uses markdown, and uses some variables above the markdown to process the documents based on them, here's an example: https://raw2.github.com/tecnoyucas/tecnoyucas.github.io/master/_posts/2013-12-26-bienvenido-a-tecnoyucas.markdown, the lines between the --- bars at the top are those variables, as you see, there's a date variable over there, so we could use that to make them unavailable if the date is posterior to the current date.
• To process those variables, Jekyll makes an object called page which has the defined variables as attributes, this object is available in the _layouts, for example, here we're currently using the date variable.
• For example, we could filter the posts by the date. Currently we have a filter by categories, in the bottom of the page appears a list of old posts who can be identified and picked by the "old" category, check it here.
• Jekyll has plugins, we could use them.

Tell me, what do you think? I'll give you any help if needed.

[schoettler]

Yeah! I asked you things about Jekyll and Liquid because this was exactly my approach! I'll do my research and reply tonight.

[sadasant]

Good :D

[schoettler]

Okay so i've been reading a couple of tuts to mess around with my local copy, will come with something good later!