Jekyll and Hash/Associative Arrays
Having just once again suffered through the dimly remembered pain
of learning about Jekyll, Liquid, and hash (associative) arrays, I
am recording it here to save myself the next time I go for a few
years between dealing with it. Official documentation does not say
this (enough?), I guess because they think, "They can't, so let's
not bother talking about it." This leaves the experienced
programmer new to Liquid going "I should be able to do this, why
can't I just assign myHash = { one: 1, two: 2 } or
["one" => "1", "two" => "2"] or some combination of
braces and quotes or other punctuation? Do I just have the syntax
wrong???"