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fuzyll/convert-jekyll-to-zola.rb

Created August 29, 2021 20:03
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Short Ruby script to convert blog posts with Jekyll frontmatter into blog posts with Zola frontmatter.
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convert-jekyll-to-zola.rb
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "yaml"
#
# We want to convert this:
#
#---
#layout: post
#published: true
#title: "Fabric Art History"
#date: 2017-07-10
#categories: [self]
#tags: [fabric]
#---
#
# Into this:
#
#+++
#title = "Fabric Art History"
#date = 2017-07-10
#
#[taxonomies]
#categories = ["self"]
#tags = ["fabric"]
#+++
#
data = nil
File.open(ARGV[0], "r") do |f|
# read in data from file
data = f.read().split("\n")
end
# find the start and end of the jekyll frontmatter
fm_start = -1
fm_end = -1
data.each_with_index() do |line, i|
if line.start_with?("---") and fm_start == -1
fm_start = i
elsif line.start_with?("---")
fm_end = i
break
end
end
# bail if we couldn't find it
if fm_start == -1 or fm_end == -1
abort "Could not find start and end of Jekyll frontmatter!"
end
# load the jekyll frontmatter
jfm = YAML.load_file(ARGV[0])
# build the tera frontmatter
tfm = "+++\n"
tfm += "title = \"#{jfm["title"]}\"\n"
tfm += "date = #{jfm["date"]}\n"
tfm += "\n[taxonomies]\n"
tfm += "categories = #{jfm["categories"]}\n"
tfm += "tags = #{jfm["tags"]}\n"
tfm += "+++\n\n"
File.open(ARGV[0], "w") do |f|
f.write(tfm + data[fm_end+1..-1].join("\n"))
end
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