Introduction to Jekyll

Introduction to Jekyll talk I did at Dallas Ruby Brigade March meeting

Transcript

1. JEKYLL Matt Rogers mattrogers@sbcglobal.net @mattr_ http://mattr.info Tuesday, March 5, 13
2. WHAT IS IT? •A simple, blog-aware static site generator •The most popular ruby-based static site generator on the planet* *according to Github stars Tuesday, March 5, 13
3. BLOG AWARENESS •Pagination •Permalinks •Tagging •Migration from other platforms Tuesday, March 5, 13
4. WHAT’S IT USED FOR? •Blogs •Company Websites •Anything that doesn’t require server side logic Tuesday, March 5, 13
5. WHO USES IT? Tuesday, March 5, 13
6. EVERYBODY! *Ok, maybe not, but it is quite famous. Tuesday, March 5, 13
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10. HOW DOES IT WORK? •Textile or Markdown •Liquid for templates •HTML out Tuesday, March 5, 13
11. HOW DOES IT WORK? •Posts go in a _posts directory •YAML based front matter for processing by Jekyll Tuesday, March 5, 13
12. HOW DOES IT WORK? •Generated site dumped into _site •Extensible via plugins •Config file provides more customization Tuesday, March 5, 13
13. HOW DOES IT WORK? •Plenty of sample sites to build on. •The sites page of the Jekyll wiki has examples. Tuesday, March 5, 13
14. FIGHT! •Jekyll’s main use case is blogging •Other tools (nanoc and middleman) are more generic tools Tuesday, March 5, 13