Using nanoc to create a blog archive page, I'd like to display a list similar to what's shown at http://daringfireball.net/archive/
I'm running into problems based on the way blog articles in nanoc are dated. Here's the code I've tried:
by_yearmonth = @site.sorted_articles.group_by{ |a| [a.date.year,a.date.month] }
by_yearmonth.keys.sort.each do |yearmonth|
articles_this_month = by_yearmonth[yearmonth]
# code here to display month and year
articles_this_month.each do |article|
# code here to display title of blog post
end
end
nanoc doesn't seem to understand a.date.year or a.date.month -- when I try to compile the site, I get an error saying that the "date" method is undefined.
Update: Here's the code that ended up working, thanks to some crucial direction from ddfreyne:
# In lib/helpers/blogging.rb:
def grouped_articles
sorted_articles.group_by do |a|
[ Time.parse(a[:created_at]).year, Time.parse(a[:created_at]).month ]
end.sort.reverse
end
# In blog archive item:
<% grouped_articles.each do |yearmonth, articles_this_month| %>
<h2>Year <%= yearmonth.first %>, month <%= yearmonth.last %></h2>
<% articles_this_month.each do |article| %>
<h3><%= article[:title] %></h3>
<% end %>
<% end %>
Thanks!