High Voltage VS Jekyll

If you only need some static pages in your Rails app, I think you can use something simple like: https://github.com/thoughtbot/high_voltage.

Also not quite what you're lookin' for but throwing it out there anyway: https://github.com/thoughtbot/high_voltage

I've always used high voltage for static files. You can configure it to use top-level routes. It isn't a problem. Requests for assets don't even hit the Rails router.

I use Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com).

I'd switch to Hugo, but every time I try, I give up. It's not that I can't, it's too much up-front investment and fiddling than I care to deal with (recommendations and tips appreciated).

Jekyll - that I used for The ephemeral miniconf (source)

Publishing tools. By utilising a simple structure of notes stored in a local directories or online repositories like github or gitlab, with the help of the static site generators like Quartz or Jekyll it is only a matter of few minutes and you can have your own digital garden, collection of personal knowledge and everything you written. Feeling inspired? Read this: A Brief History and Ethos of the Digital Garden, a newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web.

I run one blog on Jekyll[0], another on Hugo[1]. I must admit, Hugo somehow feels much more flexible and fast.

- [0] https://jekyllrb.com/

First, jekyll wouldn't run on my new Mac.

Today I decided to try and update the Jekyll theme for this site, Chirpy. If you've watched the blog or gone to this blog's status page you probably noticed it was down for a few hours today. Needless to say, things didn't go as planned. It turns out that the last time I tried to update/recreate the blog site I chose the Chirpy Starter option instead of the Github Fork option, and in trying to update it the whole thing went sideways. No problem I'd just restore from the backup/snapshot in Proxmox, which also failed and destroyed the LXC, great!

A basic marketing site built-on Jekyll and hosted via Cloudflare Pages.

This blog is running on Hugo. It had previously been running on Jekyll. Both these SSGs ship with the ability to create excerpts from your markdown content in 1 line or thereabouts.

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