1. Static Sites in Ruby
Bryan Bibat
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2. Say you want to build a
simple site using Ruby...

4. It's 2014, not 2007,
dammit!

5. Why Static Sites?

6. YAGNI

7. Third-Party APIs
(e.g. Disqus, Gist,
Google Analytics)

8. Performance

9. Security

10. your options...

13. Jekyll pros:

14. Jekyll pros:
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well-known, standard for site generators

15. Jekyll pros:
●
well-known, standard for site generators
●
many plugins/frameworks (e.g. Octopress)

17. Jekyll pros:
●
well-known, standard for site generators
●
many plugins/frameworks (e.g. Octopress)
●
automatic Github Pages build

18. What's missing from
Jekyll?

20. What's missing from Jekyll
(out-of-the-box):

21. What's missing from Jekyll
(out-of-the-box):
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bundle exec coffee break

22. What's missing from Jekyll
(out-of-the-box):
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Asset Precompilation

23. What's missing from Jekyll
(out-of-the-box):
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Asset Precompilation
●
LiveReload

24. Jekyll alternatives

27. Middleman Demo

28. Semi-Static Sites
via Sinatra

31. sinatra-asset-pipeline
demo

32. Thank you for listening!
Bryan Bibat
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