Merge branch 'master' of github.com:getpelican/pelican

docs/faq.rst

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ How can I help?
 ================
 
 There are several ways to help out. First, you can use Pelican and report any
-suggestions or problems you might have via IRC or the issue tracker.
+suggestions or problems you might have via IRC or the `issue tracker <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues>`_.
 
 If you want to contribute, please fork `the git repository
 <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/>`_, create a new feature branch, make

docs/getting_started.rst

@@ -187,7 +187,9 @@ Note that, aside from the title, none of this metadata is mandatory: if the date
 is not specified, Pelican will rely on the file's "mtime" timestamp, and the
 category can be determined by the directory in which the file resides. For
 example, a file located at ``python/foobar/myfoobar.rst`` will have a category of
-``foobar``.
+``foobar``. If you would like to organize your files in other ways where the
+name of the subfolder would not be a good category name, you can set the
+setting ``USE_FOLDER_AS_CATEGORY`` to ``False``.
 
 Generate your blog
 ------------------

docs/settings.rst

@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ Setting name (default value)                                            What doe
 `DATE_FORMATS` (``{}``)                                                 If you do manage multiple languages, you can
                                                                         set the date formatting here. See "Date format and locales"
                                                                         section below for details.
+`USE_FOLDER_AS_CATEGORY` (``True``)                                     When you don't specify a category in your post metadata and set this
+                                                                        setting to ``True`` and organize your articles in subfolders, the
+                                                                        subfolder will become the category of your post. If set to ``False``
+                                                                        ``DEFAULT_CATEGORY`` will be used as a fallback.
 `DEFAULT_CATEGORY` (``'misc'``)                                         The default category to fall back on.
 `DEFAULT_DATE_FORMAT` (``'%a %d %B %Y'``)                               The default date format you want to use.
 `DISPLAY_PAGES_ON_MENU` (``True``)                                      Whether to display pages on the menu of the

pelican/contents.py

@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ class Page(object):
             'lang': getattr(self, 'lang', 'en'),
             'date': getattr(self, 'date', datetime.now()),
             'author': self.author,
-            'category': getattr(self, 'category', 'misc'),
+            'category': getattr(self, 'category',
+                self.settings['DEFAULT_CATEGORY']),
         }
 
     def _expand_settings(self, key):

pelican/generators.py

@@ -280,11 +280,14 @@ class ArticlesGenerator(Generator):
             # if no category is set, use the name of the path as a category
             if 'category' not in metadata:
 
-                if os.path.dirname(f) == article_path:  # if the article is not in a subdirectory
-                    category = self.settings['DEFAULT_CATEGORY']
-                else:
+                if (self.settings['USE_FOLDER_AS_CATEGORY']
+                    and os.path.dirname(f) != article_path):
+                    # if the article is in a subdirectory
                     category = os.path.basename(os.path.dirname(f))\
-                                .decode('utf-8')
+                        .decode('utf-8')
+                else:
+                    # if the article is not in a subdirectory
+                    category = self.settings['DEFAULT_CATEGORY']
 
                 if category != '':
                     metadata['category'] = Category(category, self.settings)

pelican/settings.py

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ _DEFAULT_CONFIG = {'PATH': '.',
                    'PDF_GENERATOR': False,
                    'OUTPUT_SOURCES': False,
                    'OUTPUT_SOURCES_EXTENSION': '.text',
+                   'USE_FOLDER_AS_CATEGORY': True,
                    'DEFAULT_CATEGORY': 'misc',
                    'DEFAULT_DATE': 'fs',
                    'WITH_FUTURE_DATES': True,

tests/support.py

@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ def mute(returns_output=False):
     return decorator
 
 
-
 def get_article(title, slug, content, lang, extra_metadata=None):
     metadata = {'slug': slug, 'title': title, 'lang': lang}
     if extra_metadata is not None:
@@ -122,19 +121,20 @@ def get_article(title, slug, content, lang, extra_metadata=None):
     return Article(content, metadata=metadata)
 
 
-def skipIfNoExecutable(executable, valid_exit_code=1):
-    """Tries to run an executable to make sure it's in the path, Skips the tests
-    if not found.
+def skipIfNoExecutable(executable):
+    """Skip test if `executable` is not found
+
+    Tries to run `executable` with subprocess to make sure it's in the path,
+    and skips the tests if not found (if subprocess raises a `OSError`).
     """
 
-    # calling with no params the command should exit with 1
     with open(os.devnull, 'w') as fnull:
         try:
             res = subprocess.call(executable, stdout=fnull, stderr=fnull)
         except OSError:
             res = None
 
-    if res != valid_exit_code:
-        return unittest.skip('{0} compiler not found'.format(executable))
+    if res is None:
+        return unittest.skip('{0} executable not found'.format(executable))
 
     return lambda func: func

tests/test_generators.py

@@ -86,6 +86,20 @@ class TestArticlesGenerator(unittest.TestCase):
         categories_expected = ['Default', 'TestCategory', 'Yeah', 'test', 'yeah']
         self.assertEquals(categories, categories_expected)
 
+    def test_do_not_use_folder_as_category(self):
+
+        settings = _DEFAULT_CONFIG.copy()
+        settings['ARTICLE_DIR'] = 'content'
+        settings['DEFAULT_CATEGORY'] = 'Default'
+        settings['USE_FOLDER_AS_CATEGORY'] = False
+        generator = ArticlesGenerator(settings.copy(), settings,
+                            CUR_DIR, _DEFAULT_CONFIG['THEME'], None,
+                            _DEFAULT_CONFIG['MARKUP'])
+        generator.generate_context()
+
+        categories = [cat.name for cat, _ in generator.categories]
+        self.assertEquals(categories, ['Default', 'Yeah', 'test', 'yeah'])
+
     def test_direct_templates_save_as_default(self):
 
         settings = _DEFAULT_CONFIG.copy()

tests/test_importer.py

@@ -3,25 +3,24 @@
 import os
 
 from pelican.tools.pelican_import import wp2fields, fields2pelican
-from .support import unittest, temporary_folder, mute
+from .support import unittest, temporary_folder, mute, skipIfNoExecutable
 
 CUR_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__)
 WORDPRESS_XML_SAMPLE = os.path.join(CUR_DIR, 'content', 'wordpressexport.xml')
 
-PANDOC = os.system('pandoc --version') == 0
 try:
     import BeautifulSoup
 except ImportError:
     BeautifulSoup = False  # NOQA
 
 
+@skipIfNoExecutable(['pandoc', '--version'])
+@unittest.skipUnless(BeautifulSoup, 'Needs BeautifulSoup module')
 class TestWordpressXmlImporter(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
         self.posts = wp2fields(WORDPRESS_XML_SAMPLE)
 
-    @unittest.skipUnless(PANDOC and BeautifulSoup,
-                         'Needs Pandoc and BeautifulSoup')
     def test_ignore_empty_posts(self):
 
         posts = list(self.posts)
@@ -29,8 +28,6 @@ class TestWordpressXmlImporter(unittest.TestCase):
         for title, content, fname, date, author, categ, tags, format in posts:
             self.assertTrue(title.strip())
 
-    @unittest.skipUnless(PANDOC and BeautifulSoup,
-                         'Needs Pandoc and BeautifulSoup')
     def test_can_toggle_raw_html_code_parsing(self):
 
         posts = list(self.posts)