Can you use hashes in templates?

[quintrino]

Environment

• Mac OSX
• dotter 0.13.2

The question

I currently use freshrc and am converting to dotter.

Probably a simple question, but I haven't had much luck finding an answer. Is there a way to have a hash/dictionary in a template?

I currently have this file which has aliases stored as a hash in ruby erb, which then generates one version for zsh (which uses aliases) and one version for fish (which uses abbr)

I'm wondering if there's a way in a template to do something similar to this pseudo-code.

aliases = {
    git: {
        g: 'git',
        gs: 'git status'
    },
    navigation: {
        bp: 'bat --plain',
        rmf: 'rm -rf',
        md: 'mkdir -p'
    }
}

for set in aliases {
    for alias, command in set {
        if (abbr_language == true) 
            "abbr {alias} {command}"
        else
            "alias {alias} {command}"
        \if
    }
}

[SuperCuber]

Should be possible. To do nested tables like that in TOML, you should do something like

[mypackage.variables.aliases.git]
g = "git"
gs = "git status"
[mypackage.variables.aliases.navigation]
bp = "bat --plain`
...

Although I'm not sure why you're breaking it into sets in the first place - you could probably just have all under aliases

In the rc file, according to this handlebars documentation: https://handlebarsjs.com/guide/builtin-helpers.html#each
You could use something like

{{#each aliases}}
abbr {{@key}} {{this}}
{{/each}}