Middleman
sitepress
Middleman | sitepress | |
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15 | 11 | |
7,021 | 245 | |
0.3% | 0.8% | |
7.7 | 7.4 | |
28 days ago | 6 months ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Middleman
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“Make” as a Static Site Generator
Most of the Static Site Generators default to generating blog from markdown, which is not feasible for company websites etc. For such projects I like Middleman (https://middlemanapp.com) which provides layouts/partials and things like haml templates.
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Bloggers who host statically, do you use Jekyll or Pelican to roll your blog posts?
I've done similar with Middleman, and I'm 99% sure you could set this up with Pelican if you wanted. It sounds like the site generation workflow is the issue rather than the tool.
- [student help] Using Rails as front end. Is it possible?
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Show HN: Self-hosted CMS on Cloudflare for podcast/blog/images/videos/docs/URLs
I use middleman[^1] + bulmaCSS + FontAwesome but host on github using the `github.io` domain and upload podcasts to "archive.org"[^2]. The reason I choose this setup is because I want the content to survive as much as possible, hence open source technology and "free & long lived" hosting were requirements.
[^1]: https://middlemanapp.com/
[^2]: https://archive.org/
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Web app architecture design process guidance
Thanks u/Draegan88, but what's Middleman got to do with app architecture & design/ERD/schema design?
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Building Static Websites w/ Rails in 2022
I came across Middleman but it's meant to work with Ruby not necessarily Rails, it's also a bit old although appears kept up to date.
- Eu sou Desenvolvedor de Software Sr. AMA!
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CMS > MiddlemanApp > static Site - how to start middleman on heroku?
A simple middleman app consumes the data and builds a static export that runs standalone (just HTML, CSS and some JS files). That gets FTP'd/released to the webserver.
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SSGs through the ages: The ‘After Jekyll’ era
Middleman
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What is your development setup (IDE, gems, library, ci/cd etc) for RoR/non-RoR applications development ?
For my personal site, which is 10 years old, I use Middleman, and I deploy the site to S3/Cloudfront with s3_website. It works fine for now. If s3_website stops working, I'll move to Netlify probably.
sitepress
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No CMS? Writing Our Blog in React
I'm currently facing the same problem - adding a blog to a Rails app.
I thought Sitepress looks interesting, as its supposed to integrate with Rails. Have you given that one a try?
https://sitepress.cc/
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The theory versus the practice of “static websites”
I’ve been down this path enough times that I built https://sitepress.cc/, which lets you embed content in a rails app with features that are present in Jekyll, Middleman, etc. like Frontmatter, site hierarchy traversal, etc. It keeps content as files in the app/content directory, but when it’s time to pull data in from the Rails app for SEO, it’s all right there in the Rails app. There’s no “Headless CMS” crap to jump through.
For me, this is another way of keeping everything in a monolith, and which requires a lot less context switching. If I’m building a feature and I want to create marketing or support content for it, it’s all right there in the same repo. I just create the markdown files I need, commit them to the repo, and I’m don.
The thought of switching between a static content site or something like Webflow just seems silly. I think they only makes sense for huge teams.
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Rails with Middleman for static content?
In case you want something like Middleman (frontmatter, static compilation, ...), but embedable in your Rails app, Sitepress is really cool solution (you can even run it without Rails!): https://sitepress.cc
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Ask HN: Who's using Ruby web development without Ruby on Rails (RoR)?
I went the opposite direction and built a static site generator on top of Rails: https://sitepress.cc/
Turns out, Rails is a really good web framework! I tried building Sitepress on something “light weight”, Tilt and Rack, and it was a pain. I found myself constantly solving the same problems that were already solved in Rails. At some point it dawned on me that I could just build on top of a few parts of Rails, so I did. I wrote about it at https://fly.io/ruby-dispatch/single-file-rails-app/
I’m glad I did! Now I can plug all of the Rails template handlers, view components, and other Rails plugins into it and ride off that entire communities docs.
If you find yourself thinking, “rails is too heavy”, consider shedding the parts of Rails that you don’t need. Then as your application grows in complexity and you find yourself needing more parts of Rails, bring it back in.
- [student help] Using Rails as front end. Is it possible?
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Single File Rails Apps
As I was building Sitepress (a site generator like Middleman, Jekyll, & Bridgetown), I stumbled into the idea that a Rails application can exist in a single file and wrote about it at https://fly.io/ruby-dispatch/single-file-rails-app/.
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Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your data
Agreed. I built https://sitepress.cc/ that uses git + files to manage content in Rails, but it needs an editor.
I’m not sure if the right thing to do is build a web editor or smooth out git workflows so that non-technical people can open content files with desktop software to make changes to the content.
- Sitepress: Build content websites for static site or Rails applications
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State of the Web: Static Site Generators
I created https://sitepress.cc/ because you can have both! It can run a dynamic content site from a Rails app or it can compile out pages that can be deployed to any static website host.
It doesn’t have a front end for authoring pages, styles, etc, but that could be built on top of this library.
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RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)
I was using Middleman for a while, but then grew tired of all the dependencies I had to always keep up-to-date. I did the completely illogical thing and built my own static site generator, https://sitepress.cc/
A few years later and I ended up deleting most of it and replacing the internals with Rails. Now Sitepress is just a tiny rails application sitting on top of a bunch of files. Most of the maintenance and dependencies are handled by major Rails lib maintainers.
When you deploy it, you can compile it into static files and deploy as you’d expect, but you can also deploy it as a rails or rack app … or even embed it into an existing rails app.
When Rails 7.0 gets released I’ll drop JS importmaps into the default install for free and have my dream static site generator that doesn’t have a huge asset compilation step.
What are some alternatives?
Jekyll - :globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby
react-static - ⚛️ 🚀 A progressive static site generator for React.
Bridgetown - A next-generation progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby
poor-richard - Static site for Spotlight PA
Nanoc - A powerful web publishing system
Awesome Jekyll - A collection of awesome Jekyll goodies (tools, templates, plugins, guides, etc.)
Nikola - A static website and blog generator
Hugo - The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
firecms - Awesome Firebase/Firestore-based CMS. The missing admin panel for your Firebase project!
Octopress - Octopress 3.0 – Jekyll's Ferrari
gutenberg - A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org