Directory Listing plugin help

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Very well thought @MichaelCurrin.

But I better explain my use case that led me to consider using that piece of old code.

I need to create an index.html for each folder, including root, that lists the files/folders in it. I have something in place here directory_index.rb · GitHub that works but not completely as expected as the generated index.html files trigger the watch when a file is changed. I tried generating the files in the _site folder directly but I can’t get the index-htmlfiles to be kept after the build even using keep_files configuration (does not work well with wildcards).

I started working on a Generator plugin to achieve the same thing but I’m not familiar with Ruby and the Jekyll Page class so I can’t get to put any content to the generated index.htmlfile using the following code as base:

module CreateIndexPlugin
    class IndexPageGenerator < Jekyll::Generator
      safe true
  
      def generate(site)
        site.pages.each do |page|
          site.static_files << IndexPage.new(site, page)
        end
      end
    end
  
    # Subclass of `Jekyll::Page` with custom method definitions.
    class IndexPage < Jekyll::Page
      def initialize(site, page)
        @site = site             # the current site instance.
        @base = site.source      # path to the source directory.
        @dir  = page.dir         # the directory the page will reside in.
  
        # All pages have the same filename, so define attributes straight away.
        @basename = 'index'      # filename without the extension.
        @ext      = '.html'      # the extension.
        @name     = 'index.html' # basically @basename + @ext.
      end
    end
  end

Thanks for the help BTW, I really appreciate it.