tufte
tufte is a minimal static site generator ideal for getting a blog running quickly with:
Note: this library is an unmaintained experiment. If you want an actual static site generator, I would recommend Jekyll.
Getting started
You'll need Ruby and Bundler installed first.
Make a new directory for your blog and cd to it:
mkdir blog/
cd blog/
Add a Gemfile for the current version of tufte (make sure to commit this along
with your Gemfile.lock for reproducable builds).
echo 'source "https://rubygems.org"\n\ngem "tufte", "~> 1.0"' > Gemfile
bundle install
Add binstubs so you don't have to prefix commands with bundle exec:
bundle binstubs tufte
Initialize a new blog and create scaffold files in the current directory:
bin/tufte init
Generate HTML pages from the templates:
bin/tufte build
Run a local server to view your blog at http://localhost:9292 (this is a
simple wrapper around rackup so you can pass any options you normally use for
Rack such as -p 4000 to run on port 4000):
bin/tufte serve
At this point you can edit the files in templates/ and posts/ to your
liking, running bin/tufte build after each change until you are satisfied with
your new blog.