Support for other menus

[ashmckenzie]

Hi Graham,

I had the need to create a categories.txt (in the same style as menu.txt), so made a few minor changes to support this.

Hopefully it's a desirable change.

Ash.

[gma]

Hi Ash. Thanks. Does this allow you to setup menus that can't be produced by including whatever menu hierarchy you like in menu.txt, and then using the menu rendering helpers to render just a small part of the full menu.txt file?

[ashmckenzie]

Hi :) I'm using the menu.txt for page links and wanted to keep links to page / article categories separate. I tried to work menu.txt to my needs but it didn't seem like a logical fit. The site I'm working on is http://new.ashmckenzie.org/ (still a WIP)

Happy for advice on how I might be able to achieve this using the existing heleprs ?

[gma]

Have you tried having two different sections in your menu.txt file, and calling Nesta::Menu.for_path('/a-section') in your view? You should be able to maintain two completely separate menu hierarchies that way...

Site looks nice, btw.

[ashmckenzie]

Sorry for the (very) late response. Thanks for the suggestion, I tried it but it didn't work for me as in my case the contents of my categories.txt are located at the root level:

euro-trip-2010
mongo
ruby
devops

display_menu(Nesta::Menu.for_path('/', 'categories.txt'), :levels => 1)

See the menu.txt entries on the left and the categories.txt entries on the right - http://ashmckenzie.org/

[travisbot]

This pull request passes (merged c58158a into 025188a).

[gma]

I'm going to have a think about whether or not this can be done sensibly with a single menu file. I'm not massively comfortable with the proliferation of lots of .txt files in content (perhaps they should be .menu files). Thinking about it…

In the meantime, I'm going to close this issue to things tidy and help me get the next release out of the door.