Denis Defreyne

Nanoc preprocessor usage survey

Up: Nanoc

The following apparent uses of the preprocessor show up in sites’ sources (see below):

  • Read from external world into config
    • From environment (e.g. NANOC_ENV)
    • From side-effect-free command output (e.g. nanoc --version)
  • Set attributes based on other attributes, identifier, or raw content
    • Convert from one type to another (e.g. string to Time, or split tags string on comma)
    • Not currently possible: make changes depending on item’s dependencies
    • Assign next/previous item (identifier)
  • Create item (not based on anything)
  • Create items based on config details
  • Create items based on other items (sometimes paginated)
    • Items by category
    • Items by language
    • Items by year
    • Items by tag
  • Delete items that match certain criteria (e.g. is_draft, is_published)
  • Generate a variant copy of an item (e.g. .merge(offline_mode: true))
  • Create a config with some preprocessing (e.g. mangle(e-mail address))
  • Fetch data from external sources (e.g. GitHub)
    • … based on existing items (e.g. fetch repo info for all item[:github_repo])
  • Delete files generated as part of another process (e.g. output/search-index.json)
  • rsync static to output
  • Set item attributes to be compatible with the Blogging helper
  • Set item attributes to be compatible with the Sitemap helper

Sources

from: https://github.com/moll/nutikaitse/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  @config[:env] = ENV["NANOC_ENV"] ? ENV["NANOC_ENV"].downcase : "production"

	@items.each do |item|
    KINDS.find do |type, path|
      item[:kind] = type if item.identifier =~ path
    end

    LANGUAGES.find do |lang|
      item[:lang] = lang if item.identifier.end_with?(".#{lang}/")
    end

    # is_hidden is for sidemap
    item[:is_hidden] = true if item[:hidden]
  end
end

from: https://github.com/avdgaag/nanoc-template

preprocess do
  create_robots_txt
  create_webmaster_tools_authentications
  create_sitemap
end

# Preprocessor helpers
#
# This file has a collection of methods that are meant to be used in the
# preprocess-block in the Nanoc Rules file.
#
# @author Arjan van der Gaag


# Generate a sitemap.xml file using Nanoc's own xml_sitemap helper method by
# dynamically adding a new item.
#
# Make items that should not appear in the sitemap hidden. This by default
# works on all image files and typical assets, as well as error pages and
# htaccess. The is_hidden attribute is only explicitly set if it is absent,
# allowing per-file overriding.
#
# @todo extract hidden file types into configuration file?
def create_sitemap
  return unless @site.config[:output_generated_assets]

  @items.each do |item|
    if %w{png gif jpg jpeg coffee scss sass less css xml js txt}.include?(item[:extension]) ||
        item.identifier =~ /404|500|htaccess/
      item[:is_hidden] = true unless item.attributes.has_key?(:is_hidden)
    end
  end
  @items << Nanoc3::Item.new(
    "<%= xml_sitemap %>",
    { :extension => 'xml', :is_hidden => true },
    '/sitemap/'
  )
end

# Use special settings from the site configuration to generate the files
# necessary for various webmaster tools authentications, such as the services
# from Google, Yahoo and Bing.
#
# This loops through all the items in the `webmaster_tools` setting, using
# its properties to generate a new item.
#
# See config.yaml for more documentation on the input format.
def create_webmaster_tools_authentications
  return unless @site.config[:output_generated_assets]

  @site.config[:webmaster_tools].each do |file|
    next if file[:identifier].nil?
    content    = file.delete(:content)
    identifier = file.delete(:identifier)
    file.merge({ :is_hidden => true })
    @items << Nanoc3::Item.new(
      content,
      file,
      identifier
    )
  end
end

# Generate a robots.txt file in the root of the site by dynamically creating
# a new item.
#
# This will either output a default robots.txt file, that disallows all
# assets except images, and points to the sitemap file.
#
# You can override the contents of the output of this method using the site
# configuration, specifying Allow and Disallow directives. See the config.yaml
# file for more information on the expected input format.
def create_robots_txt
  return unless @site.config[:output_generated_assets]

  if @site.config[:robots]
    content = if @site.config[:robots][:default]
      <<-EOS
User-agent: *
Disallow: /assets
Allow: /assets/images
Sitemap: #{@site.config[:base_url]}/sitemap.xml
      EOS
    else
      [
        'User-Agent: *',
        @site.config[:robots][:disallow].map { |l| "Disallow: #{l}" },
        (@site.config[:robots][:allow] || []).map { |l| "Allow: #{l}" },
        "Sitemap: #{@site.config[:robots][:sitemap]}"
      ].flatten.compact.join("\n")
    end
    @items << Nanoc3::Item.new(
      content,
      { :extension => 'txt', :is_hidden => true },
      '/robots/'
    )
  end
end

from: https://github.com/dnsimple/dnsimple-support

preprocess do
  create_category_pages
end

  def create_category_pages
    articles_by_category.each do |category, items|
      @items << Nanoc::Item.new(
        "<%= render('category_index', :category => '#{category}') %>",
        {
            :title => "Articles in #{category}",
            :h1 => "#{category} articles",
            :items => items,
            :categories => category
        },
        url_for_category(category),
        :binary => false
      )
    end
  end

from https://github.com/scheibler/nanoc-multilingual-theme/blob/master/Rules.example

preprocess do
    # redirect index page
    items << Nanoc::Item.new(
        "<%= render 'redirect' %>", { :kind => 'redirect' }, "/")
    # create various blog sites in all supported languages
    # if you don't use the blog pattern at your site, you can delete the rest of the preprocess block
    for language in LANGUAGE_CODE_TO_NAME_MAPPING.keys do
        article_list = sorted_blog_article_list_for(language)
        # blog main page
        items << Nanoc::Item.new( "",
            { :kind => 'article_list', :title => 'Blog', :canonical_identifier => 'blog_home', :start_index => 0 },
            "/" + language + "/blog/")
        # blog index pages for older articles
        article_index = @site.config[:number_of_articles_at_blog_index_page]
        site_index = 2
        while article_index < article_list.length
            items << Nanoc::Item.new( "",
                { :kind => 'article_list', :title => translate_string(language, 'blog_title_page_number') % site_index,
                    :canonical_identifier => "blog_home%d" % site_index, :start_index => article_index },
                "/" + language + "/blog/index-%.2d/" % site_index)
            article_index += @site.config[:number_of_articles_at_blog_index_page]
            site_index += 1
        end
        # blog rss feed
        items << Nanoc::Item.new(
            "<%= atom_feed :title => @site.config[:site_title], :author_name => @site.config[:site_author],
                :author_uri => @site.config[:author_uri], :limit => @site.config[:number_of_rss_feed_entries],
                :articles => sorted_blog_article_list_for(language_code_of(item)) %>",
            { :kind => 'feed' }, "/" + language + "/blog/feed/")
        # tags main page
        items << Nanoc::Item.new( "",
            { :kind => 'tag_list', :title => 'Tags', :canonical_identifier => 'tag_list', :start_index => 0 },
            "/" + language + "/blog/tags/")
        all_tags(language, true).each do |tag|
            items << Nanoc::Item.new( "",
                { :kind => 'article_list_for_tag', :title => 'Tag %s' % tag[0], :tag => tag[0],
                    :count => tag[1], :canonical_identifier => 'articles_for_tag_%s' % tag[0].gsub(' ','_') },
                "/" + language + "/blog/tags/" + tag[0].gsub(' ','-') + "/")
        end
    end
end

from: https://github.com/democratech/LaPrimaire/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
	create_robots_txt
end

def create_robots_txt
	if @site.config[:robots]
		content = if @site.config[:robots][:default]
				  <<-EOS
User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /citoyen/
EOS
			  else
				  [
					  'User-Agent: *',
					  @site.config[:robots][:disallow].map { |l| "Disallow: #{l}" },
					  (@site.config[:robots][:allow] || []).map { |l| "Allow: #{l}" },
					  "Sitemap: #{@site.config[:robots][:sitemap]}"
				  ].flatten.compact.join("\n")
				  end
		@items << Nanoc3::Item.new(
			content,
			{ :extension => 'txt', :is_hidden => true },
			'/robots/'
		)
	end
end

from: https://github.com/blinry/morr.cc/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
    @items.each do |item|
        if item[:published]
            item[:published] = DateTime.parse(item[:published].to_s)
        end
        if item[:updated]
            item[:updated] = DateTime.parse(item[:updated].to_s)
        end
        if item[:tags]
            item[:tags] = item[:tags].split(",").map{|t| t.strip}
        end
    end

    tags.each do |tag|
        content = '<%= box(with_tag("'+tag+'")) %>'
        title = "Content with tag '#{tag}'"
        identifier = "/tag/#{tag}/index.md"
        @items.create(content, {:title => title, :noindex => true}, identifier)
    end

    categories.each do |name, items|
        content = "<%= box(categories[\"#{name}\"]) %>"
        title = "#{name}"
        identifier = "/#{name.downcase}/index.md"
        @items.create(content, {:title => title, :headless => true, :noindex => true}, identifier)
    end

    # rebuild these variables for each compilation
    $categories = nil
    $things = nil
end

from: https://github.com/bobthecow/genghisapp.com/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  config[:genghis_version] = get_genghis_version
end

from: https://github.com/nanoc/nanoc.ws/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  config[:nanoc_version_info] = Nanoc.version_information.strip
  config[:gem_version_info]   = Gem::VERSION
  config[:ruby_version_info]  = `ruby --version`.strip
  config[:generate_pdf] = !ENV['PDF'].nil?
end

from: https://github.com/ddfreyne/stoneship-site/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  def hide_assets
    items.each do |item|
      if item.identifier =~ /^\/assets/
        item[:is_hidden] = true
      end
    end
  end

  def delete_drafts
    items.delete_if { |i| i[:is_draft] }
  end

  def convert_dates
    items.each do |i|
      if i[:published_on]
        i[:published_on] = Date.parse(i[:published_on])
      end
    end
  end

  def assign_cachebuster_id
    stylesheet = @items["/assets/style/style.*"]
    digest = Digest::SHA1.base64digest(stylesheet.raw_content)
    stylesheet[:cbid] = digest.gsub(/[^A-Za-z0-9]+/, '')
  end

  hide_assets
  delete_drafts
  convert_dates
  assign_cachebuster_id

from: https://github.com/davidcox/coxlab-website/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  news_item_years.each do |y|
    @items << Nanoc3::Item.new(
        "",
        { :title => "News Items from #{y}",
          :year  => y },
        "/news/archive/#{y}/"
      )
  end
end

from: https://github.com/kana/hatokurandom/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  def items.find_by_identifier(identifier)
    find {|i| i.identifier == identifier} or
      throw ArgumentError.new("No such item with identifier '#{identifier}'")
  end

  root_item = items.find_by_identifier('/')
  items << Nanoc::Item.new(
    root_item.raw_content,
    root_item.attributes.merge({offline_mode: true}),
    '/offline/'
  )
end

from: https://github.com/pelletier/blog/blob/master/Rules

# Do some preprocessing on articles: inject some attributes into them.
preprocess do
  items.each do |item|
    # Make them articles if they are in this directory (I seriously don't want
    # to type this each time a write a new one).
    if item.identifier =~ %r{^/articles/(.*)$}
      item[:kind] = 'article'

      edited_stamp = item[:edited] or item[:edited_at]
      if not edited_stamp.nil?
        item[:edited_at] = Time.parse(edited_stamp)
      end
    end
    # Add the :created_at attribute, based on the filename (thanks to Time.parse
    # magic).
    if item.identifier =~ %r{^/articles/\d{4}/\d{2}/(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}).+$}
      item[:created_at] = Time.parse($1)
    end
  end
end






[TODO]

from: https://github.com/oblac/jodd-site/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  # assign a 'site_path' to each item
  @items.each do |item|
    collect_path(item)
  end
end

	def collect_path(item)
		#puts item.raw_filename

		path = item.identifier.to_s

		# remove raw prefix
		if (path.start_with?('/static/'))
			path = path[7..-1]
		end

		# puts "---->" + path

		# collect documents (format: /path/number+name.md)
		ndx = path.index('+')
		if (ndx != nil)
			last = path.rindex('/')
			key = path[0..last]
			number = path[(last+1)..(ndx-1)]
			path = key + path[(ndx+1)..-1]

			add_doc(key, number, item)
		end

		# set paths
		if (path.end_with?('.md'))
			path = path[0..-3] + 'html'
		else
			index = path.rindex('.')
			if (index != nil)
				ext = item[:extension]
				index2 = ext.rindex('.')
				if (index2 != nil)
					index2 += 1
					ext = ext[index2..-1]
				end
				path = path[0..index] + ext
			end
		end

		item[:site_path] = path

		if (item[:title] == nil)
			title = extract_md_title(item)
			if (title != nil)
				item[:title] = title
			end
		end
	end


from: https://github.com/kana/nanoc-test/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  def mangle(email)
    sp = '<span class="nospam">&#9251;</span>'
    email.gsub(/[@.]/, "#{sp}\\0#{sp}")
  end
  config[:site] = begin
    h = {}
    h[:author] = 'Kana Natsuno'
    h[:email] = mangle("kana\100whileimautomaton.net")
    h[:domain] = 'whileimautomaton.net'
    h[:name] = 'while ("im automaton");'
    h[:prefix] = "http://#{h[:domain]}"
    h[:signature] = "#{h[:author]} &lt;#{h[:email]}&gt;"
    h[:uri] = "#{h[:prefix]}/"
    h
  end
  config[:recent_topic_count] = 5

  topics_per_month =
    items
    .select(&:topic?)
    .group_by {|i| i.identifier.match(%r{^(/\d+/\d+/)\d+/$})[1]}
  topics_per_month.each do |id, topics|
    items << Nanoc::Item.new(
      "",
      {
        :title => id.sub(%r{/(\d+)/(\d+)/}, '\1-\2'),
        :topics => topics,
      },
      id
    )
  end
end


from: https://github.com/mklabs/web-learn-jquery-com/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  @chapterOrder = [
    "getting-started",
    "javascript-101",
    "jquery-basics",
    "using-jquery-core",
    "events",
    "effects",
    "ajax",
    "plugins",
    "performance",
    "code-organization",
    "custom-events",
    "how-to"
  ]

  @chapters = {}

  @github_users = {
    "jquery" =>  nil
  }

  @items.each do |item|
    item[:chapter] = item[:filename].split('/')[1]
    item[:chapter_title] = item[:chapter].gsub(/-/, " ").upcase
    if item[:github]
      @github_users[ item[:github] ] = nil
    else
      item[:github] = "jquery"
    end
  end

  @github_users.each do |username, wat|
    request = Curl::Easy.http_get("https://api.github.com/users/"+username)
    request.perform
    @github_users[ username ] = JSON.parse request.body_str
  end


  @groupedItems = @items.group_by {|item| item[:chapter]}

  @orderedItems = []

  @chapterOrder.each do |folder|
    myitems = @groupedItems[ folder ]
    @chapters [ folder] = {}
    @chapters[ folder ][ :items ] = @groupedItems[folder].sort_by {|i| i[:section] || 0 }
    @orderedItems = @orderedItems + @chapters[ folder ][ :items ]
    @chapters[ folder ][ :title ] = folder.gsub(/-/, " ").upcase
    @chapters[ folder ][ :folder ] = folder
  end

  @items.each do |item|
    i = item[:ordinal_index] = @orderedItems.index(item)
    if i
      item[:next_item] = @orderedItems[ i+1 ]
      item[:previous_item] = @orderedItems[ i-1 ]
    end
    item[:github_user] = @github_users[ item[:github] ]
  end

  @site.config[:chapters] = @chapters
  @site.config[:orderedItems] = @orderedItems
end

from: https://github.com/gjtorikian/testing/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  File.delete("output/search-index.json") if File.exists?("output/search-index.json")
end

from: https://github.com/lifepillar/nanoc4-template/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  @config[:production] = !ENV['NANOC_ENV'].nil? && ENV['NANOC_ENV'] == 'production' # See https://github.com/nanoc/nanoc/issues/487

  # See: http://nanoc.ws/docs/api/Nanoc/Helpers/Blogging.html
  # Assume all items inside /blog are blog articles unless otherwise specified.
  @items.select { |item| item.identifier.to_s =~ %r{^/blog/posts/.+} }.each do |item|
    item[:kind] ||= 'article' # Required by Nanoc::Helpers::Blogging
  end

  # Assign a date to all items (not only blog posts) unless they have it already defined.
  @items.each do |item|
    if item.key?(:created_at)
      item[:created_at] = attribute_to_time(item[:created_at])
    else
      item[:created_at] = Time.now
    end
    if item.key?(:updated_at)
      item[:updated_at] = attribute_to_time(item[:updated_at])
    end
  end

  # Build tag pages for blog posts
  build_tag_pages(articles())

  # Build yearly and monthly archives of blog posts
  build_archives(articles())


from: https://github.com/spf13/blog.zacharyvoase.com/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  system('rsync -a static/ output')  # Copy static files.
end

from: https://github.com/bjornd/jvectormap-site

preprocess do
  items.each { |i| map_preprocessing(i) if i[:map_params] || i[:map_params_variants] }
  build_jvectormap
  generate_doc
end

def map_preprocessing(item)
  item[:map_params_variants] ||= [Hash.new]
  proc_config = File.read(item.raw_filename.sub('.html', '_config.json'))
  params = JSON.parse(proc_config, :symbolize_names => true)

  item[:js_assets] = []

  item[:map_params_variants].each_index do |index|
    variant_params = params.clone
    variant_params[0] = variant_params[0].merge( item[:map_params_variants][index] )
    variant_params[-1][:params] = variant_params[-1][:params].merge( item[:map_params_variants][index] )
    item[:map_params_variants][index][:projection] = variant_params[0][:projection]
    item[:map_params_variants][index][:proc_config] = proc_config

    variant_params[0][:file_name] = @config[:maps_path]+'/'+variant_params[0][:file_name]
    #if @config[:maps_default_encoding] && !variant_params[-1][:params][:input_file_encoding]
    #  variant_params[-1][:params][:input_file_encoding] = @config[:maps_default_encoding]
    #end

    map_id = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(variant_params.to_json)
    map_name = 'jquery-jvectormap-'+variant_params[-1][:params][:name]+'-'+variant_params[0][:projection]
    output_file_path = 'tmp/'+map_id+'.js'
    variant_params[-1]['file_name'] = output_file_path

    if !File.exists? output_file_path
      converter_command =
          'echo \''+variant_params.to_json+'\' | '+
          'python '+
          'external/jvectormap/converter/processor.py '
      system(converter_command)
    end

    @items << Nanoc3::Item.new(
      File.open(output_file_path, "r").read,
      {},
      "/js/"+map_name+'/'
    )

    item[:map_params_variants][index][:download_link] = '/js/'+map_name+'.js'
    item[:map_params_variants][index][:file_size] = File.size output_file_path
    item[:map_params_variants][index][:name] = variant_params[-1][:params][:name]+'_'+variant_params[0][:projection]

    item[:js_assets] << '/js/'+map_name+'.js'

    if index == 0
      map_content = File.read(output_file_path)
      item[:regions] = JSON.parse(map_content[map_content.index('{') .. map_content.rindex('}')])['paths'].to_a.map do |region|
        {code: region[0], name: region[1]['name']}
      end
    end
  end
end

def generate_doc
  hash = get_jvectormap_commit_hash
  FileUtils.mkpath('tmp/doc') if !File.exists?('tmp/doc')
  tmpDir = 'tmp/doc/'+hash+'/'
  if !File.exists?(tmpDir)
    `external/jsdoc/jsdoc -t ../jsdoc_template/ -d #{tmpDir} external/jvectormap/src/`
  end

  Dir.foreach(tmpDir) do |fname|
    next if !['jvm-dataseries.html', 'jvm-map.html', 'jvm-multimap.html', 'jvm-proj.html', 'jvm-legend.html'].index(fname)
    itemTile, itemText = File.open(tmpDir + fname, "rb").read.split("\n", 2)

    @items << Nanoc3::Item.new(
      itemText,
      {title: itemTile, submenu: true},
      "/documentation/javascript-api/"+File.basename(tmpDir + fname, '.html')+"/"
    )
  end
end

def build_jvectormap
  hash = get_jvectormap_commit_hash
  FileUtils.mkpath('tmp/jvectormap') if !File.exists?('tmp/jvectormap')
  tmpFile = 'tmp/jvectormap/'+hash
  if !File.exists?(tmpFile)
    `external/jvectormap/build.sh #{tmpFile}`
  end
  js_file_name = "jquery-jvectormap-#{@config[:jvectormap_version]}.min"
  @items << Nanoc3::Item.new(
    File.open(tmpFile, "rb").read,
    {},
    "/js/#{js_file_name}/"
  )
  css_file_name = "jquery-jvectormap-#{@config[:jvectormap_version]}"
  @items << Nanoc3::Item.new(
    File.open("external/jvectormap/jquery-jvectormap.css", "rb").read,
    {},
    "/css/#{css_file_name}/"
  )

  FileUtils.mkpath('tmp/jvectormap-zip') if !File.exists?('tmp/jvectormap-zip')
  FileUtils.remove(Dir.glob('tmp/jvectormap-zip/*'))
  FileUtils.copy_file(tmpFile, "tmp/jvectormap-zip/#{js_file_name}.js")
  FileUtils.copy_file('external/jvectormap/jquery-jvectormap.css', "tmp/jvectormap-zip/#{css_file_name}.css")
  `cd tmp/jvectormap-zip; zip jquery-jvectormap-#{@config[:jvectormap_version]}.zip *.css *.js`
  @items << Nanoc3::Item.new(
    File.open("tmp/jvectormap-zip/jquery-jvectormap-#{@config[:jvectormap_version]}.zip", "rb").read,
    {},
    "/binary/jquery-jvectormap-#{@config[:jvectormap_version]}/"
  )
end

from: https://github.com/coderanger/coderanger.net/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  # Anything with an explicit published: false should vanish
  items.reject! {|item| item[:published] == false}

  items.each do |item|
    # Extract date from filename if present
    item.identifier.match(%r{(/.*)?/(\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d)-(.*)/}) do |md|
      item.identifier = "#{md[1]}/#{md[3]}/"
      item[:date] ||= md[2]
    end

    # Set the kind for certin subfolders
    parts = item.identifier.split('/')
    if parts.length > 2
      case parts[1]
      when 'posts'
        item[:kind] ||= 'post'
      when 'talks'
        item[:kind] ||= 'talk'
      end
    end

    # Parse the date if present
    item[:date] = Date.parse(item[:date]) if item[:date].is_a?(String)

    # Set the extra timestamps for the Blogging helper
    item[:created_at] = item[:date].to_time if item[:date]
    item[:updated_at] = item[:mtime] if item[:mtime]

    # Convert the identifier into the title if not present
    if item[:kind]
      item[:title] ||= begin
        words = item.identifier.split('/').last.split('-')
        words.first.capitalize! # Always cap the first word
        words.each {|word| word.capitalize! if word.length > 3}
        words.join(' ')
      end
    end
  end
end

from: https://github.com/DivineDominion/nanoc-boilerplate/blob/master/Rules


preprocess do
  # authors may unpublish items by setting meta attribute publish: false
  items.delete_if { |item| item[:publish] == false }
end

from: https://github.com/Caster/Ploggy/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
    # setting a URL
    items.select{ |item| item[:title] != nil }.each{ |item|
        item[:title_full] = 'Ploggy - ' + item[:title]
        splitId = item.identifier.chop.split('/')
        joinId = splitId[2..-1].join('/')
        item[:url] = (joinId.length > 0 ? '/' : '') + joinId + '/'
    }

    # Ploggy-specific handling
    logs_found = 0
    items.select{ |item| item.identifier.chop.split('/')[1] == 'logs' }
    .each{ |item|
        PloggyHelper.log_items.push(item)
         logs_found += 1
    }
    Nanoc::CLI::Logger.instance.log(:low,
        sprintf('Found %d log entries.', logs_found))
end

from: https://github.com/Caster/denvelop/blob/master/site/Rules

preprocess do
    items.select{ |item| item[:title] != nil }.
        each{ |item|
            # set title of the item
            item[:title_full] = 'Denvelop - ' + item[:title]
            # build the URL of the item, which depends on the language of the
            # item and the default language of the site
            splitId = item.identifier.without_ext.split('/')
            # special handling for index files
            if splitId[-1] == 'index' then
                splitId.pop
            end
            joinId = (splitId[2] == default_language ?
                      splitId[3..-1] : splitId[2..-1]).join('/')
            # set the URL
            item[:url] = (joinId.length > 0 ? '/' : '') + joinId + '/'
        }
end

from: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-learn/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  video_items = items.select do |item|
    split_item = item.identifier.split('/').delete_if(&:empty?)
    split_item.length > 1 and split_item.first == "videos"
  end
  video_names = video_items.map do |item|
    item.identifier.split('/').delete_if(&:empty?)[1]
  end.uniq

  all_formulas.each do |formula|
    formula[:titles] = [formula[:name], "Formulas"]
  end

  video_names.each do |item|
    detail_page = items[detail_identifier.call(item)]
    if !detail_page.nil? && detail_attributes = detail_page.attributes
      last_modified = Date.parse(detail_attributes[:date]).to_time
      if detail_page[:live] == true
        items << Nanoc::Item.new(
          "<%= render 'video_detail' %>",
          detail_attributes.merge({
            titles: [detail_attributes[:name], 'Videos'],
            kind: 'video',
            details: detail_identifier.call(item),
            transcript: transcript_identifier.call(item)
          }),
          video_identifier.call(item),
          last_modified
        )
      end
    end
  end

  video_difficulties.each do |difficulty|
    items << Nanoc::Item.new(
      "<%= render 'difficulty_list' %>",
      {
        difficulty: difficulty,
        kind: 'difficulty_list',
        titles: [difficulty.capitalize, 'Videos'],
        body_css: 'videos'
      },
      "/videos/#{difficulty}/"
    )
  end

  formula_categories.each do |category|
    items << Nanoc::Item.new(
      "<%= render 'category_list' %>",
      {category: category,
       kind: 'category_list',
       titles: [category, 'Formulas'],
       body_css: 'formulas'},
      "/formulas/#{category.downcase.split(' ').join('-')}/"
    )
  end
end

from: https://github.com/EasyRPG/easyrpg.org/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  hide_items_from_sitemap
end

def hide_items_from_sitemap
  @items.each do |item|
    if %w{css xml js txt}.include?(item[:extension]) || item.identifier =~ /404/
      item[:is_hidden] = true if item[:is_hidden].nil?
    end
  end
end

from: https://github.com/seth/userprimary.net/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  add_missing_info
  create_tags_pages
  create_month_archives
end

def add_missing_info
  items.each do |item|
    if item[:file]
      # nanoc3 >= 3.1 will have this feature, add for older versions
      item[:extension] ||= item[:file].path.match(/\..*$/)[0]
    end
  end
end

def create_tags_pages
  tags = Hash.new { |h, k| h[k] = 0 }
  items.each do |item|
    if item[:kind] == "article"
      if item[:tags]
        item[:tags].each { |t| tags[t] += 1 }
      end
    end
  end

  tags.each do |tag, count|
    content = %[= render('tag', :tag_name => "#{tag}", :tag_count => "#{count}")]
    items << Nanoc3::Item.new(content,
                              { :title => "#{tag}",
                                :tag_name => tag,
                                :tag_count => count.to_s
                              },
                              "/tags/#{tag}/")
  end
end

def create_month_archives
  bymonth = Hash.new { |h, k| h[k] = [] }
  items.each do |item|
    if item[:kind] == "article"
      t = Time.parse(item[:created_at])
      bymonth[t.strftime("%Y-%B")] << item
    end
  end

  bymonth.each do |year_month, posts|
    posts = posts.sort_by { |p| Time.parse(p[:created_at]) }.reverse
    most_recent = Time.parse(posts.first[:created_at])
    items << Nanoc3::Item.new(render('bymonth', :posts => posts,
                                     :year_month => year_month),
                              { :title => "#{year_month}",
                                :post_count => posts.count,
                                :most_recent => most_recent,
                                :month => most_recent.strftime("%B"),
                                :year => most_recent.strftime("%Y")
                              },
                              "/archives/#{year_month}/")
  end
end

from: https://github.com/rvm/rvm-site/blob/master/lib/auto.rb

preprocess do
  AutoHelper.new(File.dirname(__FILE__), self).auto

  # TODO see https://github.com/nanoc/nanoc/pull/481
  # force reload of items, does the damn warning about defining
  # preprocess second time - not a problem, no loop here
  #self.site.instance_variable_set(:@loaded, false)
  #self.site.instance_variable_set(:@items_loaded, false)
  #self.site.load
end

class AutoHelper
  attr_reader :root, :site, :tags, :authors

  def initialize(root, site)
    @root = Pathname(root)
    @site = site
    @tags = []
    @authors = {}
  end

  def parse_tags(item)
    item.attributes[:tags].each { |tag| @tags << tag unless @tags.include?(tag) }
  end

  def parse_author(item)
    authors[item.attributes[:author]] = item.attributes[:author_full]
  end

  def parse_site
    site.items.each do |item|
      parse_tags  (item) if item.attributes[:tags]
      parse_author(item) if item.attributes[:author]
    end
  end

  def write_file(file, content)
    file.open('w') { |file| file.write(content) }
  end

  def render_layout(layout_name, mapping = {})
    layout = @site.layouts.find { |l| l.identifier == layout_name.cleaned_identifier }
    filter = Nanoc::Filter.named('erb').new(mapping)
    filter.run(layout.raw_content)
  end

  def create_tag_page(tag_page, tag)
    write_file(tag_page, render_layout("templates/tag_page", tag: tag))
  end

  def create_tag_feed(feed_page, tag)
    write_file(feed_page, render_layout("templates/feed", type: 'tag', filter: tag))
  end

  def ensure_tag_page(tags_dir, tag)
    tag_page  = tags_dir + "#{tag}.haml"
    feed_page = tags_dir + "#{tag}_feed.haml"

    create_tag_page(tag_page, tag)  unless tag_page.exist?
    create_tag_feed(feed_page, tag) unless feed_page.exist?
  end

  def ensure_tag_pages
    tags_dir  = root + 'content' + 'tags'
    tags_dir.mkpath

    tags.each do |tag|
      ensure_tag_page(tags_dir, tag)
    end
  end

  def create_author_page(author_page, author, author_full)
    write_file(author_page, render_layout("templates/author_page", author: author, author_full: author_full))
  end

  def create_author_feed(feed_page,   author, author_full)
    write_file(feed_page, render_layout("templates/feed", type: 'author', filter: author))
  end

  def ensure_author_page(authors_dir, author, author_full)
    author_page = authors_dir + "#{author}.haml"
    feed_page   = authors_dir + "#{author}_feed.haml"

    create_author_page(author_page, author, author_full) unless author_page.exist?
    create_author_feed(feed_page,   author, author_full) unless feed_page.exist?
  end

  def ensure_author_pages
    authors_dir  = root + 'content' + 'authors'
    authors_dir.mkpath

    authors.each_pair do |author, author_full|
      ensure_author_page(authors_dir, author, author_full)
    end
  end

  def auto
    parse_site
    ensure_tag_pages
    ensure_author_pages
  end
end

from: https://github.com/yazgoo/blag/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  # for tag in all_tags
  #   @items << Nanoc::Item.new("",
  #       {:title => tag.capitalize, :tag => tag, :layout => "tag", :extension => 'html'},
  #        "/blog/tags/#{tag.to_url}/")
  # end

  for date in get_timeline
    # @items << Nanoc::Item.new("", {
    #           :title => "Blog posts from #{date.year}",
    #           :menu_title => date.year, :year => date.year,
    #           :layout => "timeline",
    #           :extension => "html"}, "/blog/#{date.year}/")
    @items << Nanoc::Item.new("", {
              :title => "Blog posts from #{Date::MONTHNAMES[date.month.to_i]} #{date.year}",
              :menu_title => Date::MONTHNAMES[date.month.to_i],
              :year => date.year,
              :month => date.month,
              :layout => "timeline",
              :extension => "html"}, "/blog/#{date.year}/#{'%02d' % date.month}/")
  end

end

from: https://github.com/martinrehfeld/inside.glnetworks.de/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  # authors may unpublish items by setting meta attribute publish: false
  items.delete_if { |item| item[:publish] == false }

  # set sensible defaults for attributes
  items.each do |item|
    item[:is_hidden] = true if item.binary?
    if item.identifier =~ %r(^/articles/) && !item.binary?
      item[:kind] ||= 'article'
      item[:updated_at] ||= item.mtime
    end
  end

  create_category_pages

  copy_static
end

# Create category/tag pages (uses layouts/category.haml
def create_category_pages
  tags.keys.each do |tag|
    items << Nanoc3::Item.new(
      "= render('category', :tag => '#{tag}')",
      {
        :title => "Category: #{tag}",
        :changefreq => 'daily',
        :priority => 0.4
      },
      "/categories/#{tag.downcase.parameterize}/",
      :binary => false
    )
  end
end

# Copy static assets outside of content instead of having nanoc3 process them.
def copy_static
  FileUtils.cp_r 'static/.', 'output/', :preserve => true
end

from: https://github.com/github/developer.github.com/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  add_created_at_attribute
  add_kind_attribute
  create_individual_blog_pages
  generate_redirects(config[:redirects])
  @items.each do |item|
    ConrefFS.apply_attributes(@config, item, :default)
  end
end

def add_created_at_attribute
  @items.each do |item|
    date = date_from_filename(item[:filename])
    item[:created_at] = date unless date.nil?
  end
end

def add_kind_attribute
  @items.each do |item|
    next unless item[:filename].to_s.starts_with?('content/changes/2')
    item[:kind] = 'change'
  end
end

module Paginate
  BLOG_TYPE = 'changes'

  def paginated_items(items)
    items.select { |i| i.identifier =~ %r(/#{BLOG_TYPE}/\d{4}) }.sort_by { |b| Time.parse(b[:created_at].to_s) }
  end

  def create_individual_blog_pages
    paginated_blog_items = paginated_items(items)

    # create individual blog pages
    blog_pages = []
    blog_pages << paginated_blog_items.slice!(0...PER_PAGE) until paginated_blog_items.empty?

    blog_pages.each_index do |i|
      next_i = i + 1 # accounts for 0-index array
      first = i * PER_PAGE
      last  = (next_i * PER_PAGE) - 1

      @items.create(
        "<%= renderp '/pagination_page.html',
          :current_page => #{next_i},
          :per_page => PER_PAGE,
          :first => #{first}, :last => #{last} %>",
        { :title => 'GitHub API Changes', :layout => 'blog' },
        "/changes/#{next_i}"
      )
    end
  end
end

module RedirectGenerator
  def generate_redirects(redirects)
    redirects.each do |pairs|
      pairs.each_pair do |old_url, new_url|
        filename = old_url.to_s.sub(%r{/$}, '')
        @items.create(
          "<%= renderp '/redirect.*',
            { :new_url => '#{new_url}'
            }
          %>",
          { :filename => filename },
          filename
        )
      end
    end
  end
end

from: https://github.com/DataDog/documentation/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  create_redirect_pages
  # def rchomp(sep = $/)
  #   self.start_with?(sep) ? self[sep.size..-1] : self
  # end

  # def snippetizer(item)
  #   if item["has_snippets"] == "True"
  #     doc = Nokogiri::HTML.fragment(item.content)
  #     doc.css(".snippetizer").each do |snippet|
  #       print snippet
  # #     # id = @item.identifier.gsub("(/(.+)/", "$&")
  #       id = item.identifier.chomp('/').rchomp('/') + '-' + snippet['id']
  # #     # print id
  # #     # print snippet.content
  #       new_snippet = {id => snippet.content}
  #       print new_snippet
  #       $global_snippets.merge(new_snippet)
  #     end
  #   end
  # end

  if ENV.has_key?('github_personal_token')
    $client = $client ||= Octokit::Client.new(:access_token => ENV['github_personal_token'])
    $client.user.login
  end

  $cbfingerprints = get_cache_bust_fingerprints()
  $en_local_hash = get_local_hash('en')
  $ja_local_hash = get_local_hash('ja')
  $example_items = collect_example_items()
  $video_items = collect_video_items()
  $ja_example_items = collect_ja_example_items()
  $ja_video_items = collect_ja_video_items()
  $integration_items = collect_integration_items()
  $ja_integration_items = collect_ja_integration_items()
  $guide_items = collect_guide_items()
  $ja_guide_items = collect_ja_guide_items()
  create_tag_pages($example_items,{:identifier => "/examples/%%tag%%/"})
  create_tag_pages($video_items,{:identifier => "/videos/%%tag%%/"})
  create_tag_pages($ja_example_items,{:identifier => "/ja/examples/%%tag%%/", :template => "example-subindex-ja"})
  create_tag_pages($ja_video_items,{:identifier => "/ja/videos/%%tag%%/", :template => "video-subindex-ja"})

  @items.each do |item|
    language = "en"
    otherlang = "ja"
    langpath = ""
    phrases = $en_local_hash
    if item.identifier.match('/ja/')
      language = "ja"
      otherlang = ""
      langpath = "/ja"
      phrases = $ja_local_hash
    end
    item["language"] = language
    item["otherlang"] = otherlang
    item["langpath"] = langpath
    phrases.each do | key, val |
      item[key] = val
    end
    # snippetizer(item)
  end
end

from: https://github.com/ddfreyne/neps-site/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  # Remove non-NEPs from /neps/*/
  items.delete_if do |i|
    parts = i.identifier.scan(/[^\/]+/)
    parts.size == 2 && parts[0] == 'neps' && parts[1] !~ %r{^NEP-}
  end

  # Remove : from neps
  items.each do |i|
    i.identifier.sub!(':', '')
  end

  # Remove /neps/ prefix
  items.each do |i|
    i.identifier.sub!(/^\/neps/, '')
  end

  # Assign number and title
  neps.each do |nep|
    nep[:number] = nep.identifier[/\d+/].to_i
    nep[:title]  = nep.identifier.match(/\d+-(.*)\/$/)[1].gsub('-', ' ')
  end
end

from: https://github.com/andreareginato/conference_site/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  copy_static # add assets to the output directory
end

from: https://github.com/cdlm/website-nanoc/blob/master/rules.rb

preprocess do

  # setup blog items
  all_feeds.each do |feed|
    feed.chain_entries
    feed.set_info
    feed.generate
  end

  # sitemap
  hide_items do |item|
    case item.identifier
    when %r{/publications/\d\d\d\d/.*}
      false
    when /404|500|htaccess/, %r{/(scripts|stylesheets)/.*}
      true
    else
      item.binary? || @site.config[:hidden_extensions].include?(item[:extension])
    end
  end
  create_sitemap
end

  def all_feeds
    Enumerator.new do |feeds|
      @items.each do |i|
        feeds << Feed.new(@site, i) if i.feed?
      end
    end
  end

    def chain_entries
      prev = nil
      entries.each do |current|
        unless prev.nil?
          prev[:next] = current.identifier
          current[:prev] = prev.identifier
        end
        prev = current
      end
    end

    def set_info
      entries.each do |e|
        e.attributes.update(@root[:entries_info])
      end
    end

    def generate
      @site.items << archive_item unless @root[:archives].nil?
      @site.items.concat yearly_archive_items unless @root[:archives_yearly].nil?
      @site.items << tag_item unless @root[:tags].nil?
    end

from: https://github.com/spree/spree/blob/master/guides/Rules

preprocess do
  config[:deploy][:default][:region] = ENV['S3_REGION']
  config[:deploy][:default][:bucket] = ENV['S3_BUCKET_NAME']
  config[:deploy][:default][:aws_access_key_id] = ENV['AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID']
  config[:deploy][:default][:aws_secret_access_key] = ENV['AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY']
end

from: https://github.com/matsimitsu/roytomeij.com/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  # authors may unpublish items by setting meta attribute publish: false
  items.delete_if { |item| item[:publish] == false }

  copy_static
 # create_tag_pages
  add_update_item_attributes
end

from: https://github.com/chickenboot/vintageinvite/blob/master/Rules

preprocess do
  build_tag_pages(items)
end

def all_tags(items = nil, sort = false)
  items ||= @items # default to all items if no items passed
  tags = {}
  items.each do |i|
    (i[:tags] || []).each{|t| tags[t] ||= 0; tags[t] += 1 }
  end
  # if sort is true, sort by item count descending
  sort ? tags.sort {|tl, tr| tr[1] <=> tl[1]} : tags
end

def build_tag_pages(items)
  all_tags(items).each do |tag,count|
    items << Nanoc3::Item.new(
      "= render('_blog_page', :tag => '#{tag}', :page_title => 'Tag: #{tag}')",
      { :title => "Tag: #{tag}" },  # , :is_hidden => true
      "/blog/tags/#{tag}/", :binary => false
    )
  end
end

from: https://github.com/CootCraig/nanoc_blog/blob/master/blog/Rules

preprocess do
  items << Nanoc::Item.new(
    "",
    {},
    "/post_index/"
  )
  tag_list = Set.new
  items.each do |item|
    item[:tags].each do |tag|
      if tag.length > 0
        tag_list.add(tag.downcase)
      end
    end if item[:tags]
  end
  items << Nanoc::Item.new(
    "",
    { :tag_list => tag_list },
    "/tag_index/"
  )
  tag_list.each do |tag|
    items << Nanoc::Item.new(
      "",
      { :tag => tag },
      "/tags/#{tag}/"
    )
  end
end
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