Being a ruby noob coming from a design/front-end background myself; I found nanoc rather easy use... the config does take a bit getting used to but maybe you can create a skeleton on github and get the new folk to just clone it. (I am trying to set it up in such a way myself; so please share any findings if possible... :D)
My $0.02 Cheers, Arunan On 19 September 2011 09:34, Samuel Richardson <[email protected]> wrote: > Has the list had any experience with static website generators? > > I'm in the process of reworking our front end teams method of > generating websites and I'd like to introduce the use of SASS, > CoffeeScript and general good practices (like the use of > includes/partials!). The end result will still be HTML/CSS/JS but I > want the tools we use to get there to be a bit more sophisticated. > This is to enforce better coding and to speed site development up. > > I've mocked up and used a prototype system that's similar to how I > want the end tool to work. That is, it will watch a folder full of > SASS files, CoffeeScript files etc and automatically transform them > into there more basic equivalents then compile them together into a > single asset file. What I've built is really just a prototype though, > and it will need quite a bit more work to get it ready for production > and other team members to use. I also don't want to reinvent the > wheel. > > I've looked an nanoc, which looks super powerful, but it might be > overkill for what we want. The configuration looks quite complex and > some of the people that are going to be using it are junior front end > devs that might have come from a design background. In other words, it > needs to be somewhat foolproof and easy-ish to use. > > I've gone through the static websites category on Ruby Toolbox and it > seems nanoc is the closest to what we want to use. I'd like it to be > fairly mature as well, if possible. > > Samuel Richardson > www.richardson.co.nz | 0405 472 748 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- @askalot Website: http://arunanskanthan.com --- "Ariels in the sky. When you free small mind, you free your life..." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
