denpatin/slog

Slim-Powered Blog Engine

Slim Powered Blog Engine

A proof-of-concept experiment whether via slim one can handily and seamlessly build a blog to host at GitHub.

Development

Prerequisites

It is assumed that you already have Ruby 2.4.0 installed. If not, then you can follow a couple of simple steps from here (applicable only for OS X and Linux).

Also, it is assumed that you already have Node.js installed.

Preparation

1. git clone https://github.com/denpatin/slog.git && cd slog

• bundle install
• Gulp & Co.

npm install gulp-cli -g
npm install gulp -D
npm install --save-dev del
npm install --save-dev gulp-if
npm install --save-dev gulp-rename
npm install --save-dev gulp-concat
npm install --save-dev gulp-uglify
npm install --save-dev gulp-concat-css
npm install --save-dev gulp-minify-css

Building the Blog

For now, just execute the ruby build.rb > index.html command. Then you find the main page file as index.html.

Working with Assets

Run the gulp dev command (or gulp prod for cleaning unused css) to recompile the assets. You can find the build-ready versions in the assets/build directory.

Creating New Post

ruby new.rb is responsible for creating new posts. You must pass an argument to the script; the argument is the title of the new post.

For example, ruby new.rb My new entry creates a file 201703181754-my_new_entry.slim in the posts/ directory, providing that the current time is 17:54 of 18th March, 2017.