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
>>
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