Categories/tags?

[girasquid]

I'd like to switch a Wordpress blog with about 200 posts to Toto - but in order to do that, I would need to be able to categorize and tag my posts. I'm not a Ruby guy - I've been trying to wrap my head around how to make the chances I'm thinking of, but so far I haven't had any luck.

Are these features planned additions to Toto, or are they outside of Toto's scope?

[ghost]

You can add post categorization right now with meta inside text files. For example, on my blog (usabilitypost.com) I have a couple of posts categorized as book reviews. I show these posts on a different page of the blog. You can select posts by their meta using Ruby like this:

<% @articles.select {|a| a[:category] == 'book' }[0...10].each do |article| %>
... html here to render book articles ...
<% end %>

Not sure about posts with multiple categories or tags, could probably work something out though. Cloudhead - what do you think?

[MikeAbner]

This is something I'd like to see as well. Perhaps add it to the header info.

categories: Programming, Book Review, Ruby
tags: Ruby, Rails, Design Patterns in Ruby, etc.

Then have a single page that lists everything that falls within those tags. Could probably re-use the index.rhtml for that by passing in some vars.

[cloudhead]

Categories are planned — they'll essentially just be folders inside articles/.

Tags can be done as shown above, any metadata you add to the article headers can be accessed in the templates.

[girasquid]

Awesome, I'll look forward to that.

[jrwest]

For tags as shown above using metadata is there a way to view articles by tag. Example: I tag two articles with ruby. If I make a template tagged.rhtml file does toto already have support for something like /tagged/ruby or will this try to find pages/tagged/ruby.rhtml? If it doesn't is something like this planned?

[cloudhead]

For now, you could do that manually, by fetching the articles, and doing a select:
@articles.select {|a| a.tags.include?('ruby') }
It's all cached after the first load, so there isn't really a performance hit.

[rb2k]

I think the main problem is to get the "ruby" tag from e.g. the URL
How would you pass the tag name in a dynamic way to the "tagged.rhtml"?

[5v3n]

It's still a bit messy, but: http://github.com/5v3n/karakuri adresses this feature, it might come handy to you. To see it in action, have a look at 5v3n.com.

Thanks cloudhead for opening the erb renderer to include the ENV data, that mainly did the trick.

[ixti]

I'm going to implement categories for toto (I have already implemented
tags and now want to have categories as well) here's my ideas about how
it will work (comments are appreciated):

files hierarchy

* file: ./articles/2011-08-01-one.txt
  permalink: /2011-08-01-one
  category: nil

* file: ./articles/abc/2011-08-02-two.txt
  permalink: /abc/2011-08-02-two
  category: abc

* file: ./articles/abc/def/2011-08-03-three.txt
  permalink: /abc/def/2011-08-03-three
  category: abc > def

browse categories

* `/category/abc` - will list articles from `abc` category:
** `./articles/abc/2011-08-02-two.txt`
** `./articles/abc/def/2011-08-03-three.txt`

* `/category/abc/def` - will list articles from `abc > def` category:
** `./articles/abc/def/2011-08-03-three.txt`

@cloudhead, will really appreciate your comments and/or wishes about implementation.

[seanlin]

@ixti good thing on category...but how about assigning a post to multiple categories?

[ixti]

@seanlin, I have implemented tags before, see pull request #90. So you can mark your post with several tags, but category is always one or nothing :)) I believe that nature is best architecture, so you can put a document only in one File, and one file into anther. But you can label your document with multiple tags (e.g. colored stickers).