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Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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Re: Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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Post by p4bl0 »

pubby wrote: post #93
p4bl0 wrote: post #78

My own : https://gitorious.org/fugitive ;-).

That name is very close to vim fugitive.

I know, and it's actually even linked from fugitive's Gitorious page if you click "more…" in the description, but as an Emacs user, I didn't know about fugitive.vim before choosing the name of fugitive, and the name is too awesome to change.

Re: Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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Post by zem »

1gor wrote: post #58

Webby ( http://webby.rubyforge.org/ ) Branch with ruby 1.9 fixes is at https://github.com/namelessjon/webby It is not under active development, but is for me feature-complete, stable and incredibly flexible. Advantages are: - pure ruby (no liquid templates needed) - each page has its own subdirectory where one can put images, scripts etc; your article becomes a 'package'. - chained templating filters; you can do erb-…

webby +1. never had any problems with it.

Re: Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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Post by simplify »

arcatek wrote: post #86

Docpad is really, really a great static generator. It doesn't use a lot of files, its file architecture is easy to understand, and it's node, so I don't have to hack with ruby versions.

For those interested, StaticMatic 2 is a similar, ruby alternative (disclaimer: I'm a major contributor): https://github.com/mindeavor/staticmatic2

Re: Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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Post by joeld42 »

I converted my site (http://www.tapnik.com) from Django to use Wok and it's been a great move. It's much simpler, and easier to add hooks to do stuff like cropping/resizing images. I don't update it very frequently, so I don't miss the admin interface at all, and even when I do it's usually on my laptop where the site code lives anyways.

Re: Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

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Post by joeld42 »

nkuttler wrote: post #31
ComputerGuru wrote: post #9

bash and wget. Simple example: for f in `ls *.php`; do wget http://myexample.com/$f -O $f.html; done; rename 's/\.php\.html/.html/' * sed -i 's/\.php/.html/g' *.html

Kinda. When I need a 'static' site I just use whichever CMS/framework is best and wget --mirror the output.

That sounds horrible. All of the added complexity of a heavyweight framework without any of the advantages. Most frameworks have an option to cache the output if you want to go that route, then you'll get the performance of a static site without losing the flexibility.
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