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It has layouts, includes and support for haml, sass and coffeescript On Sep 19, 9:34 am, 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 Richardsonwww.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.
