Middleman blog frontmatter evaluating files under build directory

[publitas-revolution]

Expected behaviour

Middleman build should compile all the blogs

Actual behaviour

After upgrading to latest middleman-blog I am getting this error

== Blog Sources: /blog/{title}/index.html (:prefix + :sources)

webpack is watching the files…

Traceback (most recent call last):
50: from /Users/umerkhan/.rbenv/versions/2.5.3/bin/middleman:23:in <main>' 49: from /Users/umerkhan/.rbenv/versions/2.5.3/bin/middleman:23:in load'
48: from /Users/umerkhan/.rbenv/versions/2.5.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/middleman-cli-4.3.6/bin/middleman:70:in <top (required)>' 47: from /Users/umerkhan/.rbenv/versions/2.5.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor/base.rb:485:in start'
46: from /Users/umerkhan/.rbenv/versions/2.5.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor.rb:392:in dispatch' 45: from /Users/umerkhan/.rbenv/versions/2.5.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor/invocation.rb:127:in invoke_command'
44: from /Users/umerkhan/.rbenv/versions/2.5.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in run' 43: from /Users/umerkhan/.rbenv/versions/2.5.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor.rb:40:in block in register'
4: from /Users/umerkhan/.rbenv/versions/2.5.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/middleman-blog-4.0.3/lib/middleman-blog/blog_data.rb:129:in each' 3: from /Users/umerkhan/.rbenv/versions/2.5.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/middleman-blog-4.0.3/lib/middleman-blog/blog_data.rb:145:in block in manipulate_resource_list'
2: from /Users/umerkhan/.rbenv/versions/2.5.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/middleman-blog-4.0.3/lib/middleman-blog/blog_data.rb:239:in template_path' 1: from /Users/umerkhan/.rbenv/versions/2.5.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/middleman-blog-4.0.3/lib/middleman-blog/blog_data.rb:214:in permalink_options'
/Users/umerkhan/.rbenv/versions/2.5.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/middleman-blog-4.0.3/lib/middleman-blog/blog_article.rb:228:in `date': Blog post blog/product-update-banner-embed-code/index.html needs a date in its filename or frontmatter (RuntimeError)

I think the issue is middlman-blog is trying to evaluate files under build/blog/ which are already compiled and will not have the date formatter it is looking for.

Additional information

If I remove the build directory and run middleman server everything works fine and blogs are rendered as usual. But after middleman build everything breaks.

Here is my Blog block:

activate :blog do |blog|
blog.prefix = "blog"
blog.layout = "blog_post"
blog.permalink = "/{title}"
blog.sources = "/{title}/index.html"
blog.new_article_template = "source/blogpost.template.erb"
blog.default_extension = ".erb"
blog.tag_template = "blog/tag.html"
blog.taglink = "tags/{tag}/index.html"
blog.year_template = "blog/calendar.html"
blog.year_link = "/{year}/index.html"
blog.month_link = "/{year}/{month}/index.html"
blog.day_link = "/{year}/{month}/{day}/index.html"
blog.paginate = true
blog.per_page = 10
end

• Ruby version: 2.5.3
• Middleman version: 4.3.6
• Middleman Blog version: 4.0.3
• OS version: Mac 10.15.2 / Ubuntu 16.04

[tdreyno]

I would expect the sources to be markdown files or erb?

[publitas-revolution]

Thanks for the quick response. Yes, they are. Below is the file in source directory against which I am getting above error:

But it looks like middleman-blog is trying to apply the blog-template on the html files in the build directory which is causing this error. If I remove the build/ directory middleman starts and build successfully.

[markets]

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