How do I render a specific item from a collection?

[firedev]

I want to add quotes grouped per author, so I make a collection:

quotes/author/quote.md

My idea was that I would have a default.yml with author details in each folder. But it seems that only flat lists are supported. I can see my quote in inspect though:

#<BridgetownCollection @label=quotes resources=[#<BridgetownResource::Base repo://quotes.collection/_quotes/author/quote.md>]>`

Is there a way to do something like {% collections.quotes.author.quote %}?

[jaredcwhite]

@firedev It sounds like you might want to look into resource relations:

https://www.bridgetownrb.com/docs/resources#resource-relations

That way your quotes can be related to specific authors in the authors collection, and you can lookup all quotes by certain authors, etc.

[firedev]

I see. That's more like it! Thank you!

[firedev]

I came back to quotes, trying to render a specific one. Is there a way to access it by slug, not just by number?

{{ collections.quotes.resources[0] }}

[firedev]

Here is what I did

class Quote < Bridgetown::Component
  def initialize(slug:)
    @slug = slug
  end
end

{% for quote in @view_context.collections.quotes.resources %}
{% if quote.data.slug == @slug %}

> <b>{{ quote.content }}</b>
>
> — {{ @view_context.site.data.authors[quote.data.author].name }}

{% end %}
{% end %}