dest path always relative to src

[franz-josef-kaiser]

My problem is, that I was unable to achieve a path relative to the Gruntfile.js in the root dir. grunt-markdown didn't stop to append the src dir name(s) to the dest names.

Here's my temporary work around to build a sane file name:

markdown : {
    dev : {
        files : [
            {
                expand : true,
                cwd    : '<%= site.mustache %>',
                src    : '<%= site.md %>/*.md',
                dest   : '<%= site.mustache %>/<%= site.mddeploy %>',
                ext    : '.mustache',
                rename : function ( dest, src ) {
                    var parts = src.split( '/' ),
                        file = parts[ parts.length -1 ],
                        final = dest + '/' +  file;

                    grunt.log.writeln( 'File created at: ' + final );

                    return final;
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}

Note: The grunt.log() is just a double confirmation that the callback returns the right thing. It's not necessary and you could instantly return dest + '/' + file.

I hope the current behavior is not intended. But if it is, I'd suggest adding above code to the README.md to tell people about it.

Related: #27 #42

Anyway, thanks for a plugin - it's really helpful for building docs :)

[patik]

👍 Thanks for the workaround. This is bugging me as well. I wanted to end up with this:

docs/source_files/ABC.md
docs/source_files/DEF.md
docs/ABC.html
docs/DEF.html

But I could put the HTML files seemingly everywhere except one level up :(

[haroldtreen]

I think Grunt is taking care of all the file management stuff here and has an option for doing that.

This worked for me:

markdown: {
      all: {
        files: [
          {
            expand: true,
            src: 'src/md/*.md',
            dest: 'src/html',
            flatten: true,
            ext: '.html'
          }
        ]
      }
    }

The result is:

src/md/ABC.md
src/md/DEF.md

gets converted to

src/html/ABC.html
src/html/DEF.html

More info here: http://gruntjs.com/configuring-tasks#building-the-files-object-dynamically

[talha131]

Thank you @haroldtreen flatten solved the issue for me.

[franz-josef-kaiser]

👍 for flatten …