removed date and author from the standard template and introduced a dedicated update template which will get auto assigned if a node is created under updates/<year>/<slug>

Added tests and convenient method

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/app/models/node.rb b/app/models/node.rb
index 7e64fdd..e9d935a 100644
--- a/app/models/node.rb
+++ b/app/models/node.rb
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ class Node < ActiveRecord::Base
   
   # returns an array with all parts of a unique_name rather than a string
   def unique_path
-    unique_name.split("/") rescue unique_name
+    unique_name.split("/") rescue [unique_name]
   end
   
   # returns array with pages up to root excluding root
@@ -165,6 +165,10 @@ class Node < ActiveRecord::Base
     head_id
   end
   
+  def update?
+    unique_path.length == 3 && unique_path[0] == "updates"
+  end
+  
   # Returns immutable node id for all new nodes so that the atom feed entry ids
   # stay the same eventhough the slug or positions changes.
   # Can be removed after a year or so ;)
diff --git a/app/models/page.rb b/app/models/page.rb
index b17c32b..22d2c69 100644
--- a/app/models/page.rb
+++ b/app/models/page.rb
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ class Page < ActiveRecord::Base
   # Filter
   before_create :set_page_title
   before_create :set_published_at
+  before_create :set_template
   before_save   :rewrite_links_in_body
   
   # Validations
@@ -128,9 +129,9 @@ class Page < ActiveRecord::Base
     self.reload
     
     # Clone untranslated attributes
-    self.tag_list = page.tag_list
-    self.template_name = page.template_name
-    self.published_at = page.published_at
+    self.tag_list         = page.tag_list
+    self.template_name  ||= page.template_name
+    self.published_at     = page.published_at
     
     # Getting rid of the auto-generated empty translations
     self.globalize_translations.delete_all
@@ -206,6 +207,12 @@ class Page < ActiveRecord::Base
       end
     end
     
+    def set_template
+      if node && node.update?
+        self.template_name = "update"
+      end
+    end
+    
     def rewrite_links_in_body
       begin
         if self.body
@@ -220,8 +227,6 @@ class Page < ActiveRecord::Base
             aggregate_tags[0].parent.replace_with aggregate_tags[0]
           end
           
-          
-
           links.each do |link|
             unless locales.include? link[:href].slice(1,2).to_sym
               link[:href] = link[:href].sub(/^\//, "/#{I18n.locale}/")