zepto

Really tiny static site generator

Usage

To install zepto run

$ gem install zepto

Create _layout for storing all layouts (with extension .erb)
Create folder _assets for storing all assets
Place all your markdown files inside content folder
To build run

$ zepto build

Customization

You can customize zepto using zepto.json in project root

You can specify the following options in it

key	Description	Value	Default Value	Required
assets	Location of assets	String	_assets	false
styles	Location of styles	String	_styles	false
javascript	Location of javascript	String	_javascript	false
layout	Location of layouts	String	_layout	false

Pagewise customization

At the top of the page you can attributes between as follows

---
title: "Title of the page"
date: "Date"
layout: "blog.erb"
tags: ["blog", "ruby", "javascript"]
---

Content of the page

layout: is used to speficy the layout file
tags: When you speficy a tag you can access blogs group by content using get_tag function in your layout.erb file as follows

  <ul>
    <% for | blog | in get_tag("blog") %>
    <li><%=  blog.title %></li>
    <% end %>
  </ul>

You can get list of all tags by calling get_tags

  <ul>
    <% for tag in get_tags %>
    <li><%= tag %></li>
    <% end %>
  </ul>

To get all posts that belong in a particular path

  <ul>
    <% for blog  in get_path("/posts") %>
      <li>
        <a href="<%= blog[:path].delete_suffix("/") %>.html"><%= blog[:title] %></a>
      </li>
    <% end %>
  </ul>

You can include whatever additional keys here that you need. They are exposed in the layout.erb