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helpers - how do I access them?

joeegan1...@googlemail.com (JoeE) — Mon, 11 Nov 2009 19:14:27 UT

So I have a file called page_helper.haml in src/helpers

It contains:

module SomeHelper

def page_options
@page_options ||= begin
options = {}

if current_page.include? "test_string_one"
options[:total_index] = 3
options[:next_location] = '../random_string/page0.html'

if else nesting

joeegan1...@googlemail.com (JoeE) — Mon, 11 Nov 2009 13:34:56 UT

Hi guys I'm having trouble with if and else statements in my layout
files.

As this may not relate to purely staticmatic builds I have posted it
on stack overflow.

[link]

Thanks,

Joe

offer to host/update staticmatic docs

joeegan1...@googlemail.com (JoeE) — Mon, 11 Nov 2009 15:21:55 UT

As my requests to update the docs have not been actioned, I would like
to volunteer to help with anything I can do relating to the website.
i.e updating the docs with the answers in this forum. Cheers, Joe

do helpers get auto-compiled?

joeegan1...@googlemail.com (JoeE) — Fri, 11 Nov 2009 17:00:24 UT

If I make a file called application.rb in src/helpers will it get
compiled on build and be available to the rest of the src? Thanks

switch statement syntax

joeegan1...@googlemail.com (JoeE) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 13:37:19 UT

I'm sure this is down to my lack of ruby knowledge but can I replace
this with some sort of switch statement?

- if current_page.include? "introduction"
=partial('config/intro.haml')
- if current_page.include? "test"
=partial('config/testing.haml' )
- if current_page.include? "beaver"
=partial('config/beavering.ham l')

Sass :css_filename option not being set?

reac...@charlesroper.co.uk (Charles Roper) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 21:33:09 UT

Hey Steve,

Just been having a problem with my Staticmatic project and thought it
was an issue with Compass, but further investigations seem to indicate
it might be something to do with Staticmatic.

Here's the thread on the Compass list:

[link]

Targets for 0.10.7

st...@curve21.com (Stephen Bartholomew) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 20:18:30 UT

Hey All,

Based on recent discussions and my own internal requirements, I've
compiled a shortlist of features/fixes to get in for the next release.

Take a look over it and let me know your thoughts:
[link]

I'll prioritise any bugs, but features may have to wait for another

Using Local Parameters with Partials

spockspla...@gmail.com (picardo) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 03:18:15 UT

So the parameters are not appearing for me in the partial templates. I
am not sure why though. What appears instead for a set parameter is a
boolean value, i.e. true. That probably means that this vaiable is
set, but why are they not appearing then?

I am invoking them this way embeddind them this way

How to determine the view mode?

spockspla...@gmail.com (picardo) — Tue, 10 Oct 2009 23:38:37 UT

Hey guys,

I'm hacking the core to permit staticmatic to work with different css
and javascript folders and with shtml extension. I just need some
help. How can I programmatically find out which command has been run
-- preview or build?

thanks,
Volkan

auto-relative path for ie6 conditional

joeegan1...@googlemail.com (JoeE) — Tue, 10 Oct 2009 17:49:29 UT

Is there any way of making this work relatively throughout the site?

i.e:

(layout file)

!!!
%html
%head
%title MY_title
= stylesheets
/[if IE 6]
%link{ :href => 'stylesheets/ie6.css' }
= javascripts('jquery-1.3.2.min' , :import, :functions)
%body#full-reveal

pass variables to layouts as well as partials

joeegan1...@googlemail.com (JoeE) — Mon, 10 Oct 2009 12:58:49 UT

I think this would be a powerful feature to add, even though it would
not exactly add any functionality - it would save gluing a load of
partials together allowing users' code to be more linear.

Alternate Template Language

jacob.d.lich...@gmail.com (tenable) — Sun, 10 Oct 2009 00:58:48 UT

My apologies if this has been discussed before, but are you guys
looking at supporting erb in the future? Maybe I haven't given HAML
enough time? Any alternative ruby static site frameworks out there?

Can StaticMatic output SHTML files?

spockspla...@gmail.com (picardo) — Thu, 10 Oct 2009 17:12:44 UT

Hi,

So I am wondering if it's possible to change the output type of the
files in StaticMatic?

Volkan

alternative file structure for css, js, images

joeegan1...@googlemail.com (JoeE) — Wed, 10 Oct 2009 14:36:39 UT

Hi, is there anyway of setting a different filestructure to
stylesheets and javascripts, I am required to change to assets/images,
assets/css, assets/js, anyway of setting this up in configuration.rb?

Any simple example sites out there to download?

joeegan1...@googlemail.com (JoeE) — Wed, 10 Oct 2009 11:33:11 UT

Hi - I am really keen to learn more about StaticMatic but there just
does not seem to be enough docs out there - e.g. how to use the
helpers better. I am trying to implement a navigtion/menu and all I
can find is the source code to download (http://
staticmatic.rubyforge.org/help er_central/). So if anybody has any of

error importing varia - not compass

joeegan1...@googlemail.com (JoeE) — Wed, 10 Oct 2009 09:53:48 UT

Hi, I do not seems to be able to import local variables as explained
here:

= partial('mypartial', :locals => { :title => 'My Title' })

I am using 0.10.6 - I am getting no error message just "title" where I
am expecting "My Title".

I got the impression that this had been fixed way back.

Staticmatic, Compass & Susy demo site

reac...@charlesroper.co.uk (Charles Roper) — Tue, 10 Oct 2009 22:22:46 UT

Hey all,
I just pushed a bare-bones site based on Staticmatic, Compass and the
Susy grid plugin. I thought it might be useful to share:
[link]
I've yet to actually do anything with Susy; I plan on working through
the tutorial to flesh that part out. For now, though, everything is

[compass] Error with importing partials

spockspla...@gmail.com (picardo) — Mon, 10 Oct 2009 05:05:54 UT

Hi,

I saw that you guys pushed a fix for making StaticMatic work with
Compass partials earlier this month. But it's giving me an error, the
same error that is mentioned in <a href="[link]
group/compass-users/browse_thr ead/thread/
d9bf661377a1f0d9/29549e9aa2b59 958?lnk=gst&q=staticmatic

0.10.6: Windows gem install fix

st...@curve21.com (Stephen Bartholomew) — Thu, 10 Oct 2009 09:25:30 UT

Hey all,

Another day, another release. This fixes a bug that only appears on
Windows - a stray folder called another_sub_folder. borked the
install.

Thanks to Charles Roper for spotting the issue.

Steve

Bug fix: 0.10.5

st...@curve21.com (Stephen Bartholomew) — Wed, 10 Oct 2009 18:48:56 UT

Hey all,

I managed to introduce a bug in the last release that caused
stylesheets to not be linked correctly for sub directories. This is
now fixed in 0.10.5. The gem is up there so gem install staticmatic
as normal.

Steve

Site Maps and relative stylesheets

greg.dev...@gmail.com (Greg DeVore) — Wed, 10 Oct 2009 17:32:40 UT

Right now Staticmatic always exports stylesheets links with relative
paths. This causes a problem with 404 for pages and site maps. We have
a sitemap.html and have Apache configured so that any 404's will serve
up the sitemap. With relative stylesheet links the sitemap.html file
can't find the stylesheets if the user goes to

New Staticmatic Website Launched [http://diascaldum.um.es]

juanj...@um.es (juanjo) — Wed, 10 Oct 2009 08:44:56 UT

We're happy to announce the launch of our new staticmatic website!

[link]

University of Murcia
Spain

StaticMatic 0.10.4: Fixes for Sass

st...@curve21.com (Stephen Bartholomew) — Mon, 10 Oct 2009 20:19:03 UT

Hey all,

I've just pushed a new release that contains some fixes & updates:

o Sass partials now work correctly in preview & build
o Nested stylesheet directories also now work correctly
o Default template now reflects new sass style (minor, but good to
see :-) )

The gem should be up now - try it out - let me know how you get on!

Ignore sass files prefixed with an underscore?

reac...@charlesroper.co.uk (Charles Roper) — Fri, 10 Oct 2009 18:10:41 UT

I don't seem to be able to get sass partials working in Staticmatic.

I have a src/stylesheets/partials folder that contains a sass files
called _base.sass

I then have this declaration in my src/stylesheets/screen.sass file:

@import partials/base.sass

Staticmatic neither ignores the _base.sass file (a site/stylesheets/

Small fix + lighthouse

st...@curve21.com (Stephen Bartholomew) — Sun, 09 Sep 2009 18:40:49 UT

Hey all,

Just rolled out a small fix for the problem Ian was having here:
[link]

I've also set up a lighthouse account for bug reporting:
[link]

Steve

Staticmatic preview 'current_page' error

theadmi...@gmail.com (Ian) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:36:11 UT

Hello all!

I've just created my first staticmatic project, started the mongrel
preview and I get the following error when I visit localhost:3000 :

-----
NoMethodError

undefined method `current_page' for nil:NilClass

Stack Trace

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1 /gems/staticmatic-0.10.1/lib/s taticmatic/

alternative structure

blackha...@gmail.com (blackhandr) — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:37:33 UT

the structure which staticmatic sets up doesn't suite my workflow, i
would like to build a template structure for myself. there is a way to
configure staticmatic to update the code realtime when i save the
file? actually this is the only thing i need from staticmatic to
update the code for me realtime as compass does to sass files

You should change this in the docs...

jerom...@gmail.com (Jérôme Gravel-Niquet) — Sun, 07 July 2009 18:42:18 UT

Hey,

Thanks for this great product.

There's a mistake in the "How to use" section of your site. Passing
locals to partials seems to work that way:

= partial("some_partial", {:var => "Variable!"}

And can be retrieved in the view with the equal sign, like this:

%h1= var

That's all!

--watch

trevorhart...@gmail.com (trevorhartman) — Tue, 06 June 2009 20:09:14 UT

would it be possible to watch the project directory and automatically
generate html when haml is changed instead of running a server? the
same way compass works: compass --watch

Correct form for configuration.rb file & html file extension modification

matt.helm...@gmail.com (webinetics) — Mon, 06 June 2009 15:44:45 UT

I'm trying to change the attribute wrapper to change from single to
double quotes. Can someone show me the correct form to place in the
config file? I've tried the web site example, but I'm missing
something.

Also, is there a way to tell StaticMatic to use something other than a
".html" extension--say ".php" or ".rhtml" for output?

Asset timestamp

georgedrumm...@gmail.com (George Drummond) — Sat, 06 June 2009 19:00:23 UT

In my project I wanted to cache stylesheets and javascript files on
the client, but also make clients have the latest version of the
assets.

I made a helper method to do this:

Module AssetsHelper
def stylesheet_link_tag(name)
href = "#{current_page_relative_path} stylesheets/#{name}.css?#

Generating static pages from database?

ch.bl...@gmail.com (sol) — Mon, 05 May 2009 13:46:05 UT

Hey,

I used staticmatic a long time ago, so I'm not sure about it's
(current) features...

I need to create static html sites (around 200 000) from a database,
and I would like to use ruby for this - so staticmatic was the first
thing I thought about since I need a template system to easily change

Documentation error

kno...@gmail.com (noah paessel) — Fri, 04 Apr 2009 16:20:12 UT

Hi, I have been enjoying working with staticmatic for the last week.
I am new to haml & sass, but really enjoy it.

According to documentation on the website: [link]

Partials are invoked, passing local variables in named parameter, like
so:

= partial('mypartial', :locals => { :title => 'My Title' })

Image link syntax

c...@chap.otherinbox.com (Chap) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:35:17 UT

What's the syntax for having an image link?

I tried:
= link = img "question_sense_logo.png", "http://
[link]"

But finally just did:
%a{:href => "[link]"}
= img "question_sense_logo.png"

Is this the prettiest way?

Issue : I can't use staticmatic at all

mange.ton.dis...@gmail.com (MaxBlack) — Sun, 03 Mar 2009 23:24:26 UT

Hi,
After successfully installing staticmatic, i tried testing it to make
sure everything goes well. however, it didn't go as i expected it to.
I got this error message:

dyld: NSLinkModule() error
dyld: Symbol not found: _rb_thread_alive_p
Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/g ems/fastthread-1.0.4/

Haml gsub on nil errors

stevendgar...@gmail.com (Stevie D) — Thu, 03 Mar 2009 01:16:21 UT

So I'm on Haml 2.0.9 and SM 0.10.1, and haml appears to work - HTML
pages are being generated and life is good.

The only problem is my pages have no css style (a Sass issue?)

Here is the error I am dealing with - any help would be appreciated:

Thu Mar 19 02:11:26 +0100 2009: Read error: #<NoMethodError: private

Passing blocks to view helpers

greg.dev...@gmail.com (Greg DeVore) — Sat, 02 Feb 2009 21:01:33 UT

Just getting started with staticmatic and I am having a little trouble
passing blocks to view helpers. I have this helper:

def quote_block(&block)
output = "<blockquote><div>"
output << yield
output << "</div></blockquote>"
output
end

In my view I have:

= quote_block { "<p>ScreenSteps has been a huge factor in my success

Multiple output files from a singe StaticMatic page?

vin....@gmail.com (Vincenzo Acinapura) — Sun, 02 Feb 2009 10:13:47 UT

Hello,

Is there a way to obtain multiple output files from a single
StaticMatic page?
I did not found the way, however in my opinion this would be a very
nice feature to add to this nice project.

For example, if I have a section of my website grouping a number of
similar pages, it would be great to define a single StaticMatic page,

StaticMatic 0.10.1 - Haml options & partials bug fix

st...@curve21.com (Stephen Bartholomew) — Fri, 01 Jan 2009 12:16:17 UT

Just a quick release here that fixes the partials bug and added haml
options to the site configuration.

Thanks to Randy Parker & Jason Tennier for patches and Mattt for the
nudge to get them in place :0)

Steve

Just thanks

abrcoe...@gmail.com (Abraão Coelho) — Mon, 01 Jan 2009 19:18:34 UT

Hey guys, I just have to say THANK YOU VERY MUCH... Staticmatic definitely
has been a lifesaver already! And I just discovered it today!
A few months ago I have to go through a lot of trouble to work on some
static content for one project and it really pissed me off... And I know
I'll have to do similar projects like that again soon but I don't have to

Follow StaticMatic on twitter

st...@curve21.com (Stephen Bartholomew) — Fri, 01 Jan 2009 21:39:20 UT

Not one to be lagging in all the trendy gems, you can now follow
StaticMatic on twitter for announcements and news: [link].

Steve

StaticMatic 0.10.0 - Better error handling

st...@curve21.com (Stephen Bartholomew) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:03:29 UT

Hi All,

** This Release **

I've just pushed a new version of StaticMatic that includes better
error handling plus some internal refactoring for forthcoming
improvements. Error pages should now be much useful as well as easier
to read!

** SM1 Now On Github **

The code for this version is now being hosted on github:

Haml error finally fixed in SM1

st...@curve21.com (Stephen Bartholomew) — Mon, 12 Dec 2008 12:28:30 UT

Hey all,

I've just pushed a new version of sm1 fixing the line_offset madness
that has plagued error reporting for so long.

Steve

Thank you

jr.plusp...@gmail.com (plusplus) — Mon, 11 Nov 2008 11:27:25 UT

I've been helping someone out on a static site, and my eyes were
bleeding with all the CSS and HTML. Thanks alot for staticmatic - you
have saved me from writing it myself :). Am tempted to improve the
error reporting.

Cheers,
Julian

Almost an ideal solution... just one more thing.

yourt...@gmail.com (Joshaven) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:34:07 UT

I am primarily a web app developer, however I occasionally need to
build simple websites that are little more then a brochure.
StaticMatic is a great solution, however my clients would like to be
able to 'edit' the content online. After thinking about this I
believe StaticMatic along with another solution is best... Does

Fixing the passing of :locals to a partial in StaticMatic 0.9.4

randy.j.par...@gmail.com (Randy Parker) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:54:21 UT

The syntax:
= partial('timeline', {:a => 'A', :b => 'B'})

successfully passes local variables to the '_timeline' partial if the
StaticMatic Base class has one line changed:

/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/st aticmatic-0.9.4/lib/staticmati c/base.rb

On line 217, change

html.render(@scope) { yield }

Fixing the " undefined method `line_offset' " Error

randy.j.par...@gmail.com (randy_p) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:29:52 UT

Previous workarounds for this error downgraded Haml to an older
revision.

StaticMatic assigns Haml::Error instances to 'haml_error' when it
rescues exceptions. The Haml module contains a class called Error,
which is only a few lines long - see lib/haml/error.rb. This Error
class was simplified after Haml 1.8.2, and now contains only one

Development

r...@ryantm.com (Ryan Mulligan) — Sun, 09 Sep 2008 19:39:14 UT

What is going on on your development branches? It seems that Thomas Reynolds
is going off in and interesting direction.
Thomas are you in contact with Steven about your changes?
I'm working on a gem called RSSify that I hope to integrate with Staticmatic
for automatic RSS generation. I was hoping to work on the latest code, but

Is anybody using partials with locals?

agbod...@gmail.com (lyqwyd) — Thu, 09 Sep 2008 03:57:39 UT

I tried using partials with 0.9.4 with locals and it dies. Looks like
0.9.4 is not compatible with haml 2+. I tried using staticmatic 2 from
git and the preview won't even load, it says there's an error on:

$ rake preview --
trace
(in mysite)
** Invoke preview (first_time)
** Execute preview

On-demand template handlers

tdre...@gmail.com (Thomas Reynolds) — Thu, 07 July 2008 17:38:56 UT

In my branch on github, staticmatic now attempts to load a list of
gems (haml, liquid, redcloth, etc) and enables template handlers for
each if they are found. This makes staticmatic template agnostic as
haml and sass are loaded just the same as Markdown or Liquid. It also
removes all the Haml.init_rails hacks.