Archive listing, views, helpers

@page added to PostsController

TODO: language file stuff -- I left comments in the view files where these belong. I don't know how to test them from here

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/app/helpers/blog_posts_helper.rb b/app/helpers/blog_posts_helper.rb
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+module BlogPostsHelper
+  def blog_archive_list
+    posts = BlogPost.select('published_at').all_previous
+    return nil if posts.blank?
+    html = '<section id="blog_archive_list"><h1>Archives</h1><nav>'
+    links = []
+    
+    posts.each do |e|
+      links << e.published_at.strftime('%m/%Y')
+    end      
+    links.uniq!
+    links.each do |l|
+      year = l.split('/')[1]
+      month = l.split('/')[0]
+      count = BlogPost.by_archive(Time.parse(l)).size
+      text = "#{Date::MONTHNAMES[month.to_i]} #{year} (#{count})"
+      html += link_to(text, archive_blog_posts_path(:year => year, :month => month))
+    end
+    html += '</nav></section>'
+    html.html_safe
+  end
+end