Keep a list of blog authors in a yaml file.

doc-src/authors.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+chris:
+  fullname: Chris Eppstein
+  byline_link: http://chriseppstein.github.com/
+brandon:
+  fullname: Brandon Mathis
+eric:
+  fullname: Eric Meyer
+nico:
+  fullname: Nico Hagenburger
+scott:
+  fullname: Scott Davis

doc-src/layouts/post.haml

@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 - render "blog" do
   %h1= @item[:title]
-  %h2 By #{@item[:author]}
+  - author = author(@item[:author])
+  %h2
+    By
+    - if author["byline_link"]
+      %a{:href=>author["byline_link"]}= author["fullname"]
+    - else
+      = author["fullname"]
   = yield
   -#comments= render "partials/disqus_comments"

doc-src/lib/blog.rb

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 POST_NAME = %r{^/posts/(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(.*)/$}
 require 'time'
+require 'yaml'
 
 def blog_posts_in_order
   @blog_posts_in_order ||= @items.select {|i| i.identifier =~ %r{/posts} }.sort_by {|i| i.identifier }
@@ -24,3 +25,13 @@ def blog_date(item = @item)
     Time.new($1.to_i, $2.to_i, $3.to_i)
   end
 end
+
+def authors
+  @site.cached("authors") do
+    YAML.load_file("#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../authors.yml")
+  end
+end
+
+def author(author_id)
+  authors[author_id]
+end