# this plugin adds the variable page.conference to every page
# it does this by grabbing the conference directory from its path
module Jekyll

  class Page

    def to_liquid

      # remove everything before and including 'conferences/' and remove everything after the conference directory name
      self.data.deep_merge({
        "conference" => File.join(@dir, self.url).sub(/.*conferences\//, '').slice(/[^\/]*/)
      })

    end

  end

end