How to configure URLs of articles with underscore

[molotoff]

Expected behaviour

Get the articles in build with initially names with underscore

Actual behaviour

Now all urls are replacing with dashes

Steps to reproduce the problem

1. Create the article with underscore: name_of_article.html.markdown
2. After the building we get this article with dashes name-of-article.html

• Ruby version: 2.3.3
• Middleman version: 4.2.1
• Middleman Blog version: 4.0.3
• OS version: MacOS 10.15.2

[tdreyno]

Found some code in the blog extension that might explain this: https://github.com/middleman/middleman-blog/blob/master/lib/middleman-blog/uri_templates.rb#L76

[molotoff]

Yeah, I saw those part of code.
But is fork of repository is a single way to fix those problem?

[tdreyno]

No, if we find a fix we can update this repository. The biggest issue is that this "bug" has been around for years so changing it now might change other users URLs. So we'd have to fix this by adding a new option to opt in the new (aka fixed) behavior.

[markets]

@tdreyno Do you know how can I access the blog options in that point of the code? I just made a quick look, but I can't find any way to access the blog instance here:

middleman-blog/lib/middleman-blog/uri_templates.rb

Lines 80 to 81 in 9bb7fc7

	# Replace all _ with -
	parameterized_string.tr!('_', '-')

I'd like to introduce a new option to allow to opt in this behavior, as you pointed out in the comment above ☝️

[tdreyno]

@markets looks like a static helper function. probably best to see if there's access to the blog instance/config from wherever its being called. Can add params/options to that helper to be more configurable.

[markets]

Yeah, that's what I thought too.. Ok! I'll take a look taking into account this approach.