Liquid String Drop

Provides a drop that is both a string and a drop so that you can embed them in hashes, replace pieces of of build systems with drops and optimize your code for speed/efficiency.

Usage

require "liquid/drop/str"
class MyDrop < Liquid::Drop::Str
  attr_reader :other

  def initialize(val, other:)
    @other = other
    super(val)
  end
end

a = {
  MyDrop.new("hello", other: "world") => "Yup."
}

# pry(main) > a["hello"] # => "Yup."
# pry(main) > a.keys.fetch(0).other
#   => "world"

Usefulness

This Gem is particularly useful for replacing parts of Jekyll's core with drops of your own. Here I use it to replace Jekyll's tags with my own tag generator and a set of drops. This makes it so that anybody who uses Jekyll::Site#tags can continue to use string keys (as expected) but internally when I use it in Liquid, I have all the data that I embedded.