Jekyll::Popolo

Populate Jekyll Collections dynamically from Popolo JSON.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

group :jekyll_plugins do
  gem 'jekyll-popolo'
end

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install jekyll-popolo

Usage

You need to explicitly specify what data you want in each collection. Put the following in _plugins/popolo.rb:

Jekyll::Popolo.register_popolo_file(:senate, File.read('australia-senate-popolo.json'))

Jekyll::Popolo.process do |site, popolo|
  popolo.create_jekyll_collections(
    mps: popolo['people'].each { |p| p['layout'] = 'special_person_layout' },
    areas: popolo['areas'],
    parties: popolo['organizations'].select { |o| o['classification'] == 'party' },
  )
end

This configuration will create 3 Jekyll Collections: _mps, _areas and _parties. These won't exist on disk, they are just "virtual" collections.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/theyworkforyou/jekyll-popolo.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.