Pass class object from ruby to liquid (via Jekyll) - ruby

Question

UPDATE FOR CLARIFICATION.
I deleted the original question because it was confusing. Maybe this one is better?
I currently have something like this (simplified for brevity):
module Jekyll
module TOCGenerator
def toc(html)
...via nokogiri, get all <h3> tags, make table of contents entry
for each.
end
def contentWithTocAnchorLinks(html)
...make "back to top" anchor links under each <h3> tag that will
take the user back up to the table of contents
end
end
end
Then in the template:
<section>{{ content | toc }}</section>
<section>{{ content | contentWithTocAnchorLinks }} </section>
This works fine, but it seems sloppy. I've also tried stuffing both toc and contentWithAnchorLinks into an array and then doing something like {{ content | tocArray | first }} which also worked, but not very well (in some cases there is no table of contents and it was confusing). Anyway, what I would like to be able to do is something like this:
{% capture toc_content %}{{ content | toc_generate }}{% endcapture %}
<section> {{ toc_content.toc }} </section>
<section> {{ toc_content.content }}</section>
Jekyll does this all the time, as in {{ page.title }} but I'm not clear on how to replicate it. I only assume that a Ruby class is involved somewhere.
Does that make more sense?

Answer 1

If I understand your question, you want to parse a content, get some customers infos from it, and render a table of content.
From the Information Architecture point of view, you are supposed to store your customer datas in an atomic manner. For this, Jekyll offers you data files and collections that can be very helpful in your case.
If you need to make some basic transformations on your "objects" you can use liquid or jekyll filters.