Finish the monthly archive view

app/controllers/posts_controller.rb

@@ -89,4 +89,12 @@ def destroy
   def page
     @page = Post.find_by_title(params[:title])
   end
+
+  def date_archives
+    year = params[:year]
+    month = params[:month]
+    date = DateTime.new(year.to_i, month.to_i)
+    @title = "Monthly Archives: #{date.strftime "%b %Y"}"
+    @posts = Post.where(:date => (date.at_beginning_of_month)..(date.at_end_of_month))
+  end
 end

app/helpers/categories_helper.rb

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ def get_categories
     html_text = []
 
     Category.all.each do |category|
-          html_text << content_tag(:li, link_to(category.title, category))
+      html_text << content_tag(:li, link_to(category.title, category))
     end
     html_text.join("\n").html_safe
   end

app/helpers/posts_helper.rb

@@ -7,4 +7,18 @@ def recent_posts
     end
     html_text.join("\n").html_safe
   end
+
+  def get_archives
+    date_list = []
+    html_text = []
+
+    Post.select('DISTINCT(date)').each do |post|
+      month = post.date.strftime('%b %Y')
+      if date_list.index(month) == nil
+        date_list << month
+        html_text << content_tag(:li, link_to(month, post.date.strftime('/archives/%Y/%m')))
+      end
+    end
+    html_text.join("\n").html_safe
+  end
 end

app/views/posts/date_archives.html

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<% content_for :title do %><%= @title %><% end %>
+
+<% content_for :content do %>
+  <h2 class="pagetitle"><%= @title %></h2>
+
+  <% @posts.each do |post| %>
+    <div class="post" id="post-<%= post.id %>">
+      <%= render :partial => 'posts/title', :locals => { :post => post } %>
+    </div>
+  <% end %>
+<% end %>

app/views/shared/_sidebar.html.erb

@@ -35,8 +35,10 @@
       </li>
 
       <li>
-      <h2>Archive</h2>
-      {% get_archive %}
+      <h2>Archives</h2>
+        <ul>
+          <%= get_archives %>
+        </ul>
       </li>
 
       <li>

config/routes.rb

@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
   # just remember to delete public/index.html.
   root :to => 'posts#index'
   match ':title', :controller => 'posts', :action => 'page'
+  match 'archives/:year/:month', :controller => 'posts', :action => 'date_archives'
 
   # See how all your routes lay out with "rake routes"