Jekyll

By Tom Preston-Werner, Nick Quaranto, and many awesome contributors!

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through Textile or Markdown and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server. This is also the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host your project’s page or blog right here from GitHub.

Getting Started

• Install the gem
• Read up about its Usage and Configuration
• Take a gander at some existing Sites
• Fork and Contribute your own modifications
• Have questions? Post them on the Mailing List

Diving In

• Migrate from your previous system
• Learn how the YAML Front Matter works
• Put information on your site with Template Data
• Customize the Permalinks your posts are generated with
• Use the built-in Liquid Extensions to make your life easier

Runtime Dependencies

• Classifier: Generating related posts (Ruby)
• Directory Watcher: Auto-regeneration of sites (Ruby)
• Kramdown: Markdown-superset converter (Ruby)
• Liquid: Templating system (Ruby)
• Maruku: Default markdown engine (Ruby)
• Pygments: Syntax highlighting (Python)

Developer Dependencies

• RDiscount: Discount Markdown Processor (Ruby)
• RedCloth: Textile support (Ruby)
• RedGreen: Nicer test output (Ruby)
• RR: Mocking (Ruby)
• Shoulda: Test framework (Ruby)

License

See LICENSE.