If you're rolling your own code anyway may I suggest trying StaticMatic
and rolling your own rake (to build both Haml, Sass, and CoffeeScript)
and Capistrano tasks (for deployment) with that. I've had success with
it in the past.
Dominik
On 19/09/2011 9:34 AM, Samuel Richardson 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
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