Sitepress is a file-backed website content manager that can be embedded in popular web frameworks like Rails, run stand-alone, or be compiled into static sites. Its useful for marketing pages or small websites that you need to deploy within your web frameworks.

It features:

• Wide support for templates incuding Erb, Haml, Slim, and more.
• Static site compilation to S3, Netlify, etc.
• Embedable in Rails monoliths
• Frontmatter
• Page models
• Helpers

It all starts by running the following from the root of your rails project:

bundle add sitepress-rails

Then follow the instructions in the Sitepress Rails gem.

Install the Sitepress gem on your system:

$ gem install sitepress

Then create a new site:

$ sitepress new my-site

Sitepress will create a new site and download and install the gems it needs. Once that's done run:

$ cd my-site

Then start the Sitepress development server:

$ sitepress server

You should then see the site at http://localhost:8080/. Time to start building something beautiful!

Sitepress implements a subset of the best features from the Middleman static site generator including the Site and Parsers::Frontmatter.

Frontmatter is a way to attach metadata to content pages. Its a powerful way to enable a team of writers and engineers work together on content. The engineers focus on reading values from frontmatter while the writers can change values.

---
title: This is a swell doc
meta:
  keywords: this, is, a, test
background_color: #0f0
---

%html
  %head
    %meta(name="keywords" value="#{current_page.data.dig("meta", "keywords")}")
  %body(style="background: #{current_page.data["background_color"]};")
    %h1=current_page.data["title"]
    %p And here's the rest of the content!

The Site accepts a directory path

> site = Sitepress::Site.new(root_path: "spec/pages")
=> #<Sitepress::Site:0x007fcd24103710 @root=#<Pathname:spec/pages>, @request_path=#<Pathname:/>>

Then you can request a resource by request path:

> resource = site.get("/test")
=> #<Sitepress::Resource:0x007fcd2488a128 @request_path="/test", @content_type="text/html", @file_path=#<Pathname:spec/pages/test.html.haml>, @frontmatter=#<Sitepress::Parsers::Frontmatter:0x007fcd24889e80 @data="title: Name\nmeta:\n  keywords: One", @body="\n!!!\n%html\n  %head\n    %title=current_page.data[\"title\"]\n  %body\n    %h1 Hi\n    %p This is just some content\n    %h2 There\n">>

And access the frontmatter data (if available) and body of the template.

> resource.data
=> {"title"=>"Name", "meta"=>{"keywords"=>"One"}}
> resource.body
=> "\n!!!\n%html\n  %head\n    %title=current_page.data[\"title\"]\n  %body\n    %h1 Hi\n    %p This is just some content\n    %h2 There\n"

The Site API is a powerful way to query content via resource globbing. For example, if you have a folder full of files but you only want all .html files within the docs directory, you'd do something like:

%ol
  -site.resources.glob("docs/*.html*").each do |page|
    %li=link_to page.data["title"], page.request_path

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/sitepress/sitepress.