List ignored posts in "middleman build" output

[hbons]

When building, Middleman seems to ignore posts that are in the future. Whilst this is a useful feature, I just spent an hour scratching my head why my post wouldn't build, due to getting the date wrong by a day. There's no way to discover this when you don't know about this feature.

I found this out by stumbling upon this post: https://forum.middlemanapp.com/t/for-some-reason-middleman-is-not-building-pages-for-newly-added-markdown-files/1549. So I'm not the first running into this.

It would be nice if middleman showed the skipped posts (and reason) in the middleman build output.

cc/ @garrett

[tdreyno]

Thanks.

[taf2]

There should be away to override this feature. For example, if you wanted to use the blogging feature to support upcoming events list... you would want to build posts for the future.

[taf2]

In case anyone else comes to this issue looking for a solution to the same issue here is the solution at least for a events like blog that posts future things:

activate :blog do |blog|
  blog.name = "events"
  blog.prefix = "events"
  blog.publish_future_dated = true
end

[iwarner]

Thanks for adding the context - closing