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The existing sort algorithm for the left menu allows the sort order to be controlled by specifying weights for items however it does not preserve the sort-order of items:
The ruby builtin function
sort_by
is not guaranteed to be stable. What this means is that if items do not have an explicit weight specified they can randomly shuffle around between each execution of the rendering process which makes it harder than necessary to manage/curate the order of the left menu.What’s changed
This PR changes the algorithm to respect the ordering of items as they appear in the middleman resources tree. The algorithm is:
The overall outcome is that the left nav ordering does not need to be completely controlled by weights.
This change does not break any existing sites because, if they did not control the ordering entirely by specifying weights, then the ordering would have been non-deterministic.
User need
This makes it easier to manage the ordering of items in the left nav