Markdowner is a small, markdown-based static website generator.
The goal was for me to learn some Ruby, have an actual product at the end, and make it fit into a weekend project.
It's not stable or complete by any standards and it could erase your hard drive for all I know.
If you're new to Ruby, like I am, there might be some handy links in the code. If you're a Ruby veteran, you will probably /facepalm a lot, and I'd love to hear your thoughts :)
A demo (of its output) can be seen here.
The BlueCloth 2.0.0 gem is required, I only tested it on Mac OS X Lion, with Ruby 1.8.7.
ruby publish.rb
Configuration is done in publish.rb:
markdowner = Markdowner.new({
:posts_dir => './posts/',
:dest_dir => './web/',
:base_url => "http://attilam.com/downer",
:feature_first_post => true,
:time_format => "%Y-%b-%d",
:rss_name => 'rss.xml',
:clean_dest_dir => true,
})
The output can be customized using the files in the templates folder:
index.html - the index, variables: {article_list}, {rss_url}, {base_url}
post.html - a single post, variables: {title}, {ctime}, {content}, {base_url}
rss.xml - RSS feed, variables: {build_date}, {items}, {base_url}
Markdowner was inspired by Steven Frank's PHP-based cms, Laguna.
There are a fair few links in the code to sites where I found solutions to problems.