How to list files in a directory with Liquid?

Question

I\'m trying to learn how to use Jekyll along with Bootstrap; while studying them, I decided that I\'d like to have an image carousel on my homepage.

Since I\'m real

Answer 1

The Jekyll:DirectoryTag plugin from SillyLogger

This tag lets you iterate over files at a particular path. The directory tag yields a file object and a forloop object. If files conform to the standard Jekyll format, YYYY-MM-DD-file-title, then those attributes will be populated on that file object.

For example with images

<ul>
  {% directory path: images/vacation exclude: private %}
    <li>
      <img src="{{ file.url }}"
           alt="{{ file.name }}"
           datetime="{{ file.date | date_to_xmlschema }}" />
    </li>
  {% enddirectory %}
</ul>

Answer 2

You can use this plugin. Copy and paste this code in a file inside the _plugins directory at the root of your Jekyll project.

https://gist.github.com/jgatjens/8925165

Then to use it just add the lines below

{% loop_directory directory:images iterator:image filter:*.jpg sort:descending %}
   <img src="{{ image }}" />
{% endloop_directory %}