Local Data

Sometimes it is useful to extract the data content of a page from the rendering. This way some team members can concentrate on building up the database of content, while another team member can build the structure of the site.

Local Data allows you to create data/*.yml

Here's an example file at data/people.yml with the contents:

friends:
  - Tom
  - Dick
  - Harry

Now, anywhere in our template files, we will have access to this data:

h1 Friends
  ol
    - data.people.friends.each do |friend|
      li = friend

Which will render:

<h1>Friends</h1>
<ol>
  <li>Tom</li>
  <li>Dick</li>
  <li>Harry</li>
</ol>

Notice that the name of the .yml file (people) is the name of the object which stores the data in your template: data.people.

This works for subdirectories as well. If you have a file data/people/tom.yml, you can access it with data.people.tom.