slash vs backslash error on Windows with Docpad generate --env static

[jhuntdog]

Result from docpad generate --env static on Windows can create links that include backslashes rather than slashes. The issue appears with links to files in subdirectories using eco language and is not present on Ubuntu.

Simplified directory structure includes sub-directories under documents like:

src/documents/
 | -- things
    | -- stuff
        | -- file1.html.eco
        | -- file2.html.eco
    | -- otherstuff
    | -- about.html.eco

Layout eco template generates links with something like:

<% for document in @getCollection('stuff').toJSON(): %>
    <a href="<%= document.url %>" property="dc:title">
<% end %>

Which on Windows, works fine with a docpad run. However, with docpad generate --env static, output link will look like: <a href="/things\stuff/file1.html">. Note the backslash.

On Ubuntu, same site and command will correctly generate /things/stuff/file1.html.

I'm not sure if this belongs here or with the eco plugin, so please forgive if in wrong place.

Docpad is awesome. Thank you.

[jhuntdog]

To illustrate, I forked and very lightly modified the twitter bootstrap skeleton, repo. Modifications include removing the docpad-plugin-cleanruls and adding some pages in a "demo" collection.

I included the out directory, generated running a docpad generate --env static.

The backslashes can be seen in the generated demo page

[balupton]

Thanks for the report. I currently do not have enough time to attend to this, so if you can look into it further and submit a pull request that would be great. Cheers :)

[jhuntdog]

Okay. I'll see what I can figure out. Thanks.

[jhuntdog]

I am more impressed with Docpad than ever! Though I haven't made enough progress to submit a pull request, I was able to quickly create a custom plugin, based on cleanurls, that fixes the issue.

The plugin system is amazing. Excellent work!

[balupton]

Glad you've got a workaround. We should add some tests for this inside the docpad test suite, currently we don't have any nested directory tests.

[balupton]

Fixed in the just released v6.42.1 :)

[jhuntdog]

Thank you! I'm really liking all the recent Docpad developments and direction.