Staticpress is a blog-focused static site generator. It uses Tilt for rendering nearly any template you can think of and come with a built-in Rack server for easy development previews.

Staticpress is installable as a Rubygem so a simple [sudo] gem install staticpress is all you need. Once installed you will need to initialize your blog with staticpress new <path-to-blog> [name-of-blog], where <path-to-blog> is a relative path to some directory and [name-of-blog] is an optional title. If the directory does not exist yet, it will be created, so go ahead and cd into it.

From your blog directory, you can create a new blog post with staticpress create <title>. You can turn on the server with staticpress serve to preview work in progress. Several other commands are available; check out staticpress help for more information.