improved starting point

.gitignore

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+site

Rakefile

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+require 'active_support'
+
+def ok_failed(condition)
+  if (condition)
+    puts "OK"
+  else
+    puts "FAILED"
+  end
+end
+
+port = "4000"
+site = "site"
+
+desc "list tasks"
+task :default do
+  puts "Tasks: #{(Rake::Task.tasks - [Rake::Task[:default]]).to_sentence}"
+  puts "(type rake -T for more detail)\n\n"
+end
+
+desc "remove files in output directory"
+task :clean do
+  puts "Removing output..."
+  Dir["#{site}/*"].each { |f| rm_rf(f) }
+end
+
+desc "generate website in output directory"
+task :generate => :clean do
+  puts "Generating website..."
+  system "compass"
+  system "jekyll"
+  Dir["#{site}/stylesheets/*.sass"].each { |f| rm_rf(f) }
+  system "mv #{site}/atom.html #{site}/blog/atom.xml"
+end
+
+desc "generate and deploy website"
+task :deploy => :generate do
+  print "Deploying website..."
+  ok_failed system("rsync -avz --delete #{site}/ [email protected]:~/document_root/")
+end
+
+desc "start up an instance of serve on the output files"
+task :start_serve => :stop_serve do
+  cd "#{site}" do
+    print "Starting serve..."
+    ok_failed system("serve #{port} > /dev/null 2>&1 &")
+  end
+end
+
+desc "stop all instances of serve"
+task :stop_serve do
+  pid = `ps auxw | awk '/bin\\/serve\\ #{port}/ { print $2 }'`.strip
+  if pid.empty?
+    puts "Serve is not running"
+  else
+    print "Stoping serve..."
+    ok_failed system("kill -9 #{pid}")
+  end
+end
+
+desc "preview the site in a web browser"
+multitask :preview => [:generate, :start_serve] do
+  system "open http://localhost:#{port}"
+end

source/_config.yml → _config.yml

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-source: .
-destination: ../site
+source: source
+destination: site
 markdown: rdiscount
 pygments: true
 permalink: /blog/:year/:month/:day/:title
-url: 
+url: http://yoursite.com
 multiviews: true
 sass: false
 haml: true

config.rb

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+# Require any additional compass plugins here.
+project_type = :stand_alone
+# Set this to the root of your project when deployed:
+http_path = "/"
+css_dir = "_site/stylesheets"
+sass_dir = "_source/stylesheets"
+images_dir = "images"
+
+# To enable relative paths to assets via compass helper functions. Uncomment:
+# relative_assets = true