Have you ever wanted to call <code>exit()</code> with an error condition, but weren't sure what exit status to use? No? Maybe it's just me, then. Anyway, I was reading manpages late one evening before retiring to bed in my palatial estate in rural Oregon, and I stumbled across <code>sysexits(3)</code>. Much to my chagrin, I couldn't find a +sysexits+ for Ruby! Well, for the other 2 people that actually care about <code>style(9)</code> as it applies to Ruby code, now there is one! Sysexits is a *completely* *awesome* collection of human-readable constants for the standard (BSDish) exit codes, used as arguments to +exit+ to indicate a specific error condition to the parent process. It's so fantastically fabulous that you'll want to fork it right away to avoid being thought of as that guy that's still using Webrick for his blog. I mean, <code>exit(1)</code> is so passé! This is like the 14-point font of Systems Programming. Like the C header file from which this was derived (I mean forked, naturally), error numbers begin at <code>Sysexits::EX__BASE</code> (which is way more cool than plain old +64+) to reduce the possibility of clashing with other exit statuses that other programs may already return. The codes are available in two forms: as constants which can be imported into your own namespace via <code>include Sysexits</code>, or as <code>Sysexits::STATUS_CODES</code>, a Hash keyed by Symbols derived from the constant names. Allow me to demonstrate. First, the old way: exit( 69 ) Whaaa...? Is that a euphemism? What's going on? See how unattractive and... well, 1970 that is? We're not changing vaccuum tubes here, people, we're <em>building a totally-awesome future in the Cloud™!</em> include Sysexits exit EX_UNAVAILABLE Okay, at least this is readable to people who have used <code>fork()</code> more than twice, but you could do so much better! include Sysexits exit :unavailable Holy Toledo! It's like we're writing Ruby, but our own made-up dialect in which variable++ is possible! Well, okay, it's not quite that cool. But it does look more Rubyish. And no monkeys were patched in the filming of this episode! All the simpletons still exiting with icky _numbers_ can still continue blithely along, none the wiser.

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator.

Jekyll-Scholar is for all the academic bloggers out there. It is a set of extensions for Jekyll the awesome, blog aware, static site generator; it formats your BibTeX bibliographies for the web using CSL citation styles and generally gives your blog posts citation super-powers.'

Blog engine for Middleman

Awestruct is a static site baking and publishing tool. It supports an extensive list of both templating and markup languages via Tilt (Haml, Slim, AsciiDoc, Markdown, Sass via Compass, etc), provides mobile-first layout and styling via Bootstrap or Foundation, offers a variety of deployment options (rsync, git, S3), handles site optimizations (minification, compression, cache busting), includes built-in extensions such as blog post management and is highly extensible.

Load blog posts and other managed content into Middleman

A blog system based on Ruby and Livetext

A Liquid tag plugin for Jekyll blogging engine that embeds Tweets, Timelines and more from Twitter API.

dynarex-blog

TrustyCms is a simple and powerful publishing system designed for small teams. It is built with Rails and is similar to Textpattern or MovableType, but is a general purpose content management system--not merely a blogging engine.

Octopress is an obsessively designed framework for Jekyll blogging. It’s easy to configure and easy to deploy. Sweet huh?

Radiant is a simple and powerful publishing system designed for small teams. It is built with Rails and is similar to Textpattern or MovableType, but is a general purpose content managment system--not merely a blogging engine.

Load blog posts and other managed content into Jekyll

Caboodle is a Rack and Sinatra-based framework for creating websites which combine information from various online services. There are Kits for many of the larger services, which provide a way to retrieve and display photos, videos, blog posts, status updates and so on. Caboodle normalises the display of all of these discrete Kits so that you can create a website which looks seamless but is made up of a variety of things from a variety of sources.

An engine for search-engine-optimized blog management.

No Bullshit Password strength checker. Inspired by "Password Rules are Bullshit" by Jeff Atwood. https://blog.codinghorror.com/password-rules-are-bullshit/

Spud CMS is a full-featured light weight modular cms engine as a part of the spud suite of rails gems. This particular gem comes with page management, administrative dashboard, template management, menu management and more. It is also capable of handling full-page caching as well as action-caching for even faster performance. Add more modules like spud_blog, spud_inquiries, spud_events, or spud_media for more features.

A Rails engine running pages and blog posts in a CMS.

Alula creates higly optimised static blogs while taking all the complexity and repeated tasks away from you.

Fast open source i18n plugin for Jekyll blogs.