`ref`working in `hugo serve` but not on a static build

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This seems buggy, but I’m just learning how hugo fits together and I might well have got something upside down, or left out a part somewhere.

I’ve got this inside a file content/posts/nbd/towards-a-better-nbd.md:

window.location = "{{< ref "/pages/thanks-for-signing-up.md" >}}";

This file renders fine under hugo serve, and the generated link works. I have a file content/pages/thanks-for-signing-up.md present, and it renders when I visit http://localhost:1313/pages/thanks-for-signing-up/.

However, when I run hugo --destination=../public, it fails with this error:

Building sites … ERROR 2018/05/05 12:07:08 error processing shortcode "_internal/shortcodes/ref.html" for page "posts/nbd/towards-a-better-nbd.md": template: _internal/shortcodes/ref.html:1:73: executing "_internal/shortcodes/ref.html" at <ref .Page (.Get 0)>: error calling ref: No page found with path or logical name "pages/thanks-for-signing-up.md".

There doesn’t seem to be any combination of pathname parts I can pass to ref to get it to see the file when I do a static build, despite it working fine under hugo serve.

I’m using the Kiss template, and hugo version says this:

 $ hugo version
Hugo Static Site Generator v0.41-DEV-8B03C51 linux/amd64 BuildDate: 2018-04-30T21:16:27+0100

Have I done something wrong, or is this a bug?

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Alright, I ran the command hugo -d=../public and I received the following error message:

Building sites … ERROR 2018/05/07 04:05:11 error processing shortcode "_internal/shortcodes/ref.html" for page "DirA/DirAA/thething.md": template: _internal/shortcodes/ref.html:1:73: executing "_internal/shortcodes/ref.html" at <ref .Page (.Get 0)>: error calling ref: No page found with path or logical name "hereis.md".
ERROR 2018/05/07 04:05:11 error processing shortcode "_internal/shortcodes/relref.html" for page "DirA/DirAA/thething.md": template: _internal/shortcodes/relref.html:1:76: executing "_internal/shortcodes/relref.html" at <relref .Page (.Get 0...>: error calling relref: No page found with path or logical name "hereis.md".

Set the front matter variable draft in hereis.md to false and the site decided to build.

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Bingo. Looks like it treats pages with draft: true as not existing, from ref's point of view. I wonder if there’s a way to have a more descriptive error message to remind you when you’ve forgotten to publish something…

Thanks!