A Layout is any file that is found in the layout folder of the webiste directory. Layouts container the common elements of all the pages in a website, and pages from the content folder are rendered into the layout.
The output file destination for the layout. This is the “.cairn” file in the output folder. It is used to determine if the layout is newer than the build products.
# File lib/webby/resources/layout.rb, line 41 def destination ::Webby.cairn end
Returns the extension to be applied to output files rendered by the
layotut. This will either be a string or nil
if the layout
does not specify an extension to use.
# File lib/webby/resources/layout.rb, line 28 def extension return _meta_data['extension'] if _meta_data.has_key? 'extension' if _meta_data.has_key? 'layout' lyt = ::Webby::Resources.find_layout(_meta_data['layout']) lyt ? lyt.extension : nil end end
Layouts do not have a URL. This method will alwasy return nil
.
# File lib/webby/resources/layout.rb, line 47 def url nil end
Creates a new Layout object given the full path to the layout file.
# File lib/webby/resources/layout.rb, line 16 def initialize( fn ) super @_meta_data = MetaFile.meta_data(@path) @_meta_data ||= {} @_meta_data.sanitize! end