Granular date and time control when publishing articles

[procload]

Specifically when publishing multiple articles on one day. I currently I have a loop that looks like the following:

<% data.blog.articles[0...5].each do |article| %>
  <article>
    ...article content...
  </article>
<% end %>

Which lists the 5 most recent articles on my index page, but when I publish more than one article per day it sorts them in chronological order, where I would like them to be reverse chron, like a blog typically is. Is there an easy way to reorder this so it works in a typical blog format, with the newest article of that day appearing first?

[bhollis]

If you upgrade to Middleman 3.0, this should work better. In 3.0, you can put a full DateTime in the frontmatter "date" field, and the extension sorts based on that.

[procload]

Any way you could give me an example of how to achieve this and parse it in an article view? Many thanks in advance.

Ryan Merrill
ryan@helloample.com (mailto:ryan@helloample.com)
440.452.6174

On Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Ben Hollis wrote:

If you upgrade to Middleman 3.0, this should work better. In 3.0, you can put a full DateTime in the frontmatter "date" field, and the extension sorts based on that.

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[bhollis]

Nothing to do, really. You make a blog post, like this (in a file called 2012-06-21-my-awesome-post.html.markdown):

---
title: My awesome post
date: 2012-06-21 10:00
---

Hey guys my day was awesome!

Then your original snippet becomes:

<% blog.articles[0...5].each do |article| %>
  <article>
    Title: <%= article.title %>
    Date: <%= article.date %>
  </article>
<% end %>

And without doing anything, the articles will already be sorted by date.

[bhollis]

@procload did that work for you?

[procload]

Sure did. Sorry for not replying. Thanks a bunch for the help.