webgen users - Jan 2010 - symbolic link to a directory with ruby 1.9 and UTF-8 encoding

Hello everyone.

For my website, I use a lot of symbolic links. There is no problem with
symbolic links to a file, however  a symbolic link to a directory is not
treated by webgen as a real directory.

I have tried to use in the config file:
patterns:
  Directory:
    add: - /docs/common
but it does not seem to work (the files in docs/common/ are not generated).

Currently what i do is i use something like 
sources: - ["/docs/", "Webgen::Source::FileSystem",
"../common/docs"]
and it works great!

By the way, i tried to add a pattern to copy all files in the doc directory:

patterns:
  Copy:
    add: 
      - /docs/**/*
But /docs/**/* does not match the files in /docs/* 
(that is only the files under a subdirectory of docs are copied).

Is that the intended behavior?

(I also get a warning for subdirectories:
 WARN -- Node already exists: source = /docs/foo/ | path = /docs/foo/ |
 alcn = /docs/foo/
 
 I think this is because the node /docs/foo/ is created twice, once by the
 directory handler, and once by the copy handler, apparently docs/**/*
 catches /docs/foo/)

Cheers!

Hi,
> I have tried to use in the config file:
> patterns:
>   Directory:
>     add: - /docs/common
> but it does not seem to work (the files in docs/common/ are not
> generated).
It seems that `Dir.glob` which is used to get the files for a
filesystem source doesn''t handle directory links correctly, i.e. it
only returns the link. However, when checking `File.directory?(link)`
it returns +true+. So somewhere Ruby knows that it is a link pointing
to a directory but it does not handle it right all the time.
> Currently what i do is i use something like 
> sources: - ["/docs/", "Webgen::Source::FileSystem",
"../common/docs"]
> and it works great!
If you hadn''t included that I would have recommended it! ;-)
> By the way, i tried to add a pattern to copy all files in the doc
> directory:
> 
> patterns:
>   Copy:
>     add: 
>       - /docs/**/*
> But /docs/**/* does not match the files in /docs/* 
> (that is only the files under a subdirectory of docs are copied).
> 
> Is that the intended behavior?
No, not really. I have fixed this in my local repo. You can circumvent
the problem by additionally adding the pattern `/docs/*`.
> (I also get a warning for subdirectories:
>  WARN -- Node already exists: source = /docs/foo/ | path = /docs/foo/
> | alcn = /docs/foo/
>  
>  I think this is because the node /docs/foo/ is created twice, once
> by the directory handler, and once by the copy handler, apparently
> docs/**/* catches /docs/foo/)
You are right. Since you tell the copy handler to use all the paths
underneath /docs/, it also tries to add directory path. If you only
have files with extensions, you could use the pattern `/docs/**/*.*`
instead.

-- Thomas