ptmaroct / barbary

static blog engine (because the world needed another)

barbary: what it is

It's a static blog engine. You create posts in special format in a directory and run barbary to compile them into a static site.

Features

You can browse the blog by the following methods:

• an index page
• posts
• tags

Basic usage

You need a directory structure like this:

./          # we're here
  ./data/
    ./posts/  # your posts
    ./views/  # your customized haml views
  ./static/   # your images and css (will be copied to www dir)
  ./www/      # generated site ends up here

./posts/ contains files of this format:

% cat data/posts/first.post 
title: First post
slug: first-post
published: 2008-08-29
tags: foolishness

All your base are belong to us.

Then, run:

% ruby builder.rb
building posts
building tags
building index
building feed

The generated site will appear in ./www/:

% find www/
www
www/index.html
www/posts
www/posts/barbary
www/posts/barbary/index.html
www/posts/firefox-spell-check-in-gentoo
www/posts/firefox-spell-check-in-gentoo/index.html
www/posts/first-post
www/posts/first-post/index.html
www/blog.css
www/cvk-blog.xml
www/tags
www/tags/linux
www/tags/linux/index.html
www/tags/barbary
www/tags/barbary/index.html
www/tags/gentoo
www/tags/gentoo/index.html
www/tags/firefox
www/tags/firefox/index.html
www/tags/coding
www/tags/coding/index.html
www/tags/foolishness
www/tags/foolishness/index.html
www/images
www/images/cvksblog.gif
www/images/kleist.png
www/images/bglight.png
www/images/kleist.gif
www/images/bgdark.png
www/images/bgpattern.gif

Requirements

• haml