Initially developed to generate the GitHub static pages, it can also be set to read a template, run it through Textile or Markdown and Liquid converters, and spit out a complete static website.
Here are some key features of "Jekyll":
Process:
· Set up the basic structure of the site
· Create some posts, or import them from a previous platform
· Run the site locally to see how it looks
· Deploy the site
Requirements:
· RedCloth: Textile support (Ruby)
· Liquid: Templating system (Ruby)
· Classifier: Generating related posts (Ruby)
· Maruku: Default markdown engine (Ruby)
· Directory Watcher: Auto-regeneration of sites (Ruby)
· Open4: Talking to pygments for syntax highlighting (Ruby)
· Pygments: Syntax highlighting (Python)
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Do not force use of toc_token when using generate_tok in RDiscount
· Added newer language- class name prefix to code blocks
· Changed https to http in the GitHub Pages link
· Removed CSS cruft, fix typos, fix HTML errors
· Removing manual install of Pip and Distribute
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