"No news so far" message not showing up when news directory is empty

[benjaminh]

Acknowledge the following

• I carefully read and followed the Getting Started guide.
• I read through FAQ and searched through the past issues, none of which addressed my issue.
• The issue I am raising is a potential bug in al-folio and not just a usage question.
  [For usage questions, please post in the Discussions instead of raising an issue.]

Describe the bug
The news section within about page should display No news so far… if there are no news to show up (according to _includes/news.html file). Yet, if the _news directory is empty or has been removed, the message is not showing up.

I fixed the issue by replacing the condition {% if site.news %} by {% if site.news != blank %} and I was wondering if this is a real bug or maybe due to the Jekyll/Ruby version ?

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Remove the content in _news directory
2. Go to the about page
3. Scroll down to the news section

Expected behavior
The message No news so far… should be displayed as stated in _includes/news.html (line 23).

System (please complete the following information):

• OS: Ubuntu 20.04
• Browser (and its version): Firefox 96.0
• Jekyll version: 4.2.1
• Ruby version: 3.1.0

[alshedivat]

thanks for reporting this. looks like it's a bug.