paper links for alumni

db/lab.json

@@ -9,13 +9,6 @@
 			"projects" : ["mimir"],
 			"ubit" : "yyang25"
 		},
-		"Niccolò Meneghetti" : {
-			"status" : "PhD",
-			"projects" : ["mimir"], 
-			"ubit" : "niccolom",
-			"advisor" : ["Jan Chomicki"],
-			"link" : "http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~niccolom/"
-		},
 		"Ting Xie" : {
 			"status" : "PhD",
 			"projects" : ["insider-threats"],
@@ -172,6 +165,16 @@
 			"position" : "Software Engineer",
 			"company" : "HPE/Vertica",
 			"year" : 2016
+		},
+		"Niccolò Meneghetti" : {
+			"status" : "PhD",
+			"projects" : ["mimir"], 
+			"ubit" : "niccolom",
+			"advisor" : ["Jan Chomicki"],
+			"link" : "http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~niccolom/",
+			"position" : "Software Engineer",
+			"company" : "HPE/Vertica",
+			"year" : 2016
 		}
 	}
 }

lib/lab_metadata.rb

@@ -55,11 +55,20 @@ module LabMetadata
   def LabMetadata.link_for(person)
     cname = @@cnames[person] || person
   	data = $db["lab/members"][cname]
-  	if data.nil? then person else 
+  	unless data.nil? then
       link = 
         if /^https?:\/\// =~ data["link"] then data["link"] 
         else GemSmith::root_path(data["link"]) end
       "<a class=\"lab_member\" href=\"#{link}\">#{person}</a>" 
+    else
+      alum = $db["lab/alumni/#{cname}"]
+      if alum and alum["link"] then
+        "<a class=\"lab_member\" href=\"#{alum["link"]}\">#{person}</a>"
+      elsif alum then
+        "<span class=\"lab_member\">#{person}</span>"
+      else
+        person
+      end
     end
 	end