I've had great success recently with a combination of Sinatra and wget. On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Dominik Grabiec <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > -- > 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. > >
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