Jekyll Pub
By Sebastian Lopez and ZtuX
Jekyll is a static site generator built with Ruby that uses Shopify's Liquid as a templating language. It is simple, meaning it's got no databases nor complicated configurations; static, since it generates HTML/CSS and Javascript files ready to deploy; and blog aware, thanks to its many built-in functionalities.
Static Site generators are the next step in blogging engines since they are simple, scalable and pretty fast. Static file serving is cheap, and there's no need for server side operations when all you need is a blog with a couple hundred posts having all this tools around for static websites.
Jekyll has been called "The Blogging Plataform for Geeks" which is nice, but it's precisley its main obstacle as I see it. I have a project called Dodecaedro hosted in Github Pages as a starting point, but one of the main reasons the project has now stopped is that I was responsible for doing every update publishing every post that was ever written. A task that consumed a valuable of my time I could spend getting interviews for the website or gathering more writers (which eventually I wouldn't manage to upload).
As they say at Cloud Cannon:
"The main reasons we hear for not using static websites are: Non-technical users can’t update static websites easily."
So this is what Jekyll Pub aims to give a solution for. Jekyll Pub, currently in construction, is a rails app you can upload to heroku for non-technical writers to manage site's posts easily in a RESTful way. This project enables us Geeks to have a professional site hosted in Github Pages that can be updated by non-tech people.
Initially, this app will require some Ruby on Rails basic understanding for personal configuration depending on your site needs but it aims to be a complete solution even for non rubyists and eventually for people with no server configuration experience either.
Contributing
We encourage you to contribute with us for opening the world of professional internet content creation to more people.
Email at contacto[at]sebastianls[dot]com
TO DO
- User CRUD
- Admin activation
- Paperclip gem Integration -> Done
- Article CRUD -> Done
- Tests and Documentation
- Facebook and Twitter API integration for automatic updates
- Github App Authorization
- Advanced User Sessions
- Reader subscription mailer
License
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2015 Sebastián López and Alfredo Hernández
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