Jekyll was something I've been meaning to try for ages. I never found a getting started section on the wiki and this blog was exactly what I was looking for.
Yeah that's a fair point ;) To be honest though I never actually noticed the Getting started section on the right of the screen. I've never visited the site with the intention of building a site with jekyll at that moment so I was just skimming. If all the Getting started section pages were a single long page at http://jekyllrb.com/docs/home/ (like the sinatra docs) then I probably would have noticed them. I realise this is probably ridiculously pedantic though, I'm sure I would have found the information if I was trying to actually get started rather than just get a feel for how it works.
If anything a plugin tutorial would be what Jekyll seems to need the most. The small example on the wiki wasn't exactly helpful to me.
I guess if what Jekyll or Octopress provides out of the box they are the best choice at the moment. At least that's probably why they are so incredibly popular.
I started writing my own solution but I realized once you get past a certain point it's actually pretty hard to design something like this. And with the amount of static site generators out there it wouldn't ever have a chance to compete no matter how good it would be.
I wish it was easy to just replace the Liquid templates completely. No template inheritance irks me the most.
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I don't know why this got upvoted. There's nothing new added that you can't find on Jekyll wiki.
Jekyll was something I've been meaning to try for ages. I never found a getting started section on the wiki and this blog was exactly what I was looking for.
oh please!! then what is this?
http://jekyllrb.com/docs/structure/
Yeah that's a fair point ;) To be honest though I never actually noticed the Getting started section on the right of the screen. I've never visited the site with the intention of building a site with jekyll at that moment so I was just skimming. If all the Getting started section pages were a single long page at http://jekyllrb.com/docs/home/ (like the sinatra docs) then I probably would have noticed them. I realise this is probably ridiculously pedantic though, I'm sure I would have found the information if I was trying to actually get started rather than just get a feel for how it works.
If anything a plugin tutorial would be what Jekyll seems to need the most. The small example on the wiki wasn't exactly helpful to me.
I guess if what Jekyll or Octopress provides out of the box they are the best choice at the moment. At least that's probably why they are so incredibly popular.
I started writing my own solution but I realized once you get past a certain point it's actually pretty hard to design something like this. And with the amount of static site generators out there it wouldn't ever have a chance to compete no matter how good it would be.
I wish it was easy to just replace the Liquid templates completely. No template inheritance irks me the most.
I guess that falls into Ruby dev and less Jekyll stuff?
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Is your reply supposed to be sarcastic? I can't see the joke here. tuananh made a good point.
Note: notice who's the commenter and OP.
EDIT: the currently deleted parent comment was:
why did u submit it in the first place!?