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Healy Fuess
Healy Fuess

Reputation: 127

Jekyll: Liquid Capture and Markdownify Tag Issues

In Jekyll, I am trying to include a paragraph of "site information" that should go on a certain amount of pages in my website. The file structure of the certain information I am dealing with is a "team"folder->"_posts"folder-> then within the "_posts" folder is "site_information.md" and many other markdown files of pages that I want to include the "site_information.md" in. I do not want to use an includes statement on every single file in "_posts" folder if possible, so I want to make an includes statement in the "layout.html" file.

Here is what I have tried in the "layout.html" file:

{% if page.page == "page" %}
  {% include_relative site_information.md %}
  {{content}}
{% endif %}}

The code above included the information I wanted, but it did not include it in markdown format.

I then tried this:

{% if page.page == "page" %}
  {% capture site_info %}{% include_relative site_information.md %}{% endcapture %}
  {{site_info}}
  {{content}}
{% endif %}

This code does not display the "site_information.md" information on the pages at all when using the capture tag.

I then tried this:

{% if page.page == "page" %}
  {% capture site_info %}{% include_relative site_information.md %}{% endcapture %}
  {{site_info | markdownify}}
  {{content}}
{% endif %}

This code gave me the error when using the markdownify tag:
Liquid Exception: undefined method `gsub' for nil:NilClass in _layouts/layout.html

Does anyone know how to fix this so I can use an includes statement in the layout to properly display a markdownified file on a number of web pages?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1281

Answers (1)

Denis G. Labrecque
Denis G. Labrecque

Reputation: 1291

Check that you are not trying to apply the markdownify filter to empty text. You will get Liquid Exception: undefined method 'gsub' for nil:NilClass if there is no text to markdownify.

Since you say that

This code does not display the "site_information.md" information on the pages at all when using the capture tag.

using the capture method while it does not import any text will likely cause an error.

Upvotes: 1

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