Changes in the location of the config.toml file break blogdown's new post addin

lcolladotor · April 5, 2019, 2:41pm

Hi,

The latest version of the hugo academic theme changed the default location of the config.toml file from the root directory to config/_default/config.toml which breaks the blogdown:::new_post_addin(). You can see that with this version of the CDSB community website source files https://github.com/ComunidadBioInfo/cdsbsource/tree/1f869d72c7d06d8274b1716a34b0249b15e41f5f.

Initially I wanted to test if the new post addin would work in this multi-lingual site. Anyhow, I'm posting the issue here in case anyone has a solution before posting it on the blogdown repo. Maybe this could be solved by making a soft link on the root directory to the config/_default/config.toml file instead of having to change the blogdown code.

Best,
Leo

> blogdown:::new_post_addin()
Error in blogdown:::site_root() : 
  Could not find config.toml / config.yaml under
   /Users/lcollado/Dropbox/Code/cdsbsource
   /Users/lcollado/Dropbox/Code
   /Users/lcollado/Dropbox
   /Users/lcollado
   /Users
   /
> options(width = 120)
> sessioninfo::session_info()
─ Session info ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 setting  value                                      
 version  R version 3.5.2 Patched (2019-02-17 r76113)
 os       macOS Mojave 10.14.4                       
 system   x86_64, darwin15.6.0                       
 ui       RStudio                                    
 language (EN)                                       
 collate  en_US.UTF-8                                
 ctype    en_US.UTF-8                                
 tz       America/New_York                           
 date     2019-04-05                                 

─ Packages ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 package     * version date       lib source                            
 assertthat    0.2.1   2019-03-21 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)                    
 blogdown      0.11.1  2019-04-05 [1] Github (rstudio/blogdown@5179caf) 
 bookdown      0.9     2018-12-21 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.0)                    
 cli           1.1.0   2019-03-19 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)                    
 colorout    * 1.2-0   2019-02-18 [1] Github (jalvesaq/colorout@cc5fbfa)
 crayon        1.3.4   2017-09-16 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.0)                    
 knitr         1.22    2019-03-08 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)                    
 packrat       0.5.0   2018-11-14 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.0)                    
 rstudioapi    0.10    2019-03-19 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)                    
 sessioninfo   1.1.1   2018-11-05 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.0)                    
 withr         2.1.2   2018-03-15 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.0)                    
 xfun          0.6     2019-04-02 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)                    

[1] /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/library
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$ hugo version
Hugo Static Site Generator v0.54.0/extended darwin/amd64 BuildDate: unknown
$ git --git-dir=themes/academic/.git log | head -1
commit 6778929449aed94edc1eaf642c0c44ac89fff819

lcolladotor · April 5, 2019, 2:47pm

Or maybe it's just a matter of changing this line of the blogdown package https://github.com/rstudio/blogdown/blob/master/R/utils.R#L187 from

config_files = c('config.toml', 'config.yaml')

to

config_files = c('config.toml', 'config.yaml', 'config/_default/config.toml', 'config/_default/config.yaml')

lcolladotor · April 5, 2019, 4:48pm

@apreshill and I exchanged a couple of tweets at https://twitter.com/fellgernon/status/1114180968217112576 and in the end:

ln -s config/_default/config.toml config.toml

solves the issue.

If you use blogdown::install_theme() then you won't run into this problem since that function moves the config.toml file to the expected location by blogdown.

apreshill · April 5, 2019, 4:54pm

Ah perfect! For posterity, here is the commit so you can see what blogdown was doing under the hood:

And the issue where I described it more:

github.com/rstudio/blogdown

Hugo version 0.53 restructures `config.toml` --> exampleSite won't render

opened 09:45PM - 21 Jan 19 UTC

closed 10:03PM - 21 Jan 19 UTC

apreshill

Hi @yihui, Someone else alerted me to a refactoring of Hugo exampleSites, as …with the hugo-academic theme. I reproduced the issue with Hugo version 0.53 using `gcushen/hugo-academic` theme. Here is the author's [commit that changed the structure](https://github.com/gcushen/hugo-academic/commit/ae8a86a04794ce5489b9686957045ef1f70ac859). And here is the new `exampleSite`: https://github.com/gcushen/hugo-academic/tree/master/exampleSite The most significant change is that multiple `.toml` files now exist (`languages`, `params`, and `menus` are pulled out separately), instead of one `config.toml` file. For reference, here was the old `exampleSite` `config.toml` file: https://github.com/rbind/apreshill/blob/master/themes/hugo-academic/exampleSite/config.toml Here is the beginning of the OLD main menus: ``` # Navigation Links # To link a homepage widget, specify the URL as a hash `#` followed by the filename of the # desired widget in your `content/home/` folder. # The weight parameter defines the order that the links will appear in. [params.menus] # Align the main menu to the right of the page? (true/false) align_right = true [[menu.main]] name = "Home" url = "#about" weight = 1 ``` In the new `exampleSite` `menu.toml` this same section looks like this: ``` # Navigation Links # To link a homepage widget, specify the URL as a hash `#` followed by the filename of the # desired widget in your `content/home/` folder. # The weight parameter defines the order that the links will appear in. [[main]] name = "Home" url = "#about" weight = 1 ``` However, no naive quick fixes worked me (I tried created a master `config.toml` file by pasting the multiples into one and updating the names of the params, I also tried using the old example config file and just pasting that in). Not sure if you have seen this recently with any other themes, but it seemed like a pretty drastic restructuring so wanted to make sure you are aware of it.

I imagine you could use fs to do the same within the R console (for completeness!):

library(fs)
file_move(path = "config/_default/config.toml", new_path = "config.toml")

system · April 26, 2019, 4:54pm

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