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It seems a little like overkill to bring ruby into the equation here. Standard shell tools can do this just fine.
by enkiv2 11y ago
It seems a little like overkill to bring ruby into the equation here. Standard shell tools can do this just fine.
- mondoshawan 11y agoAlong these lines, I had built up my site using makefiles, imagemagick, and a little perl (to translate multimarkdown to HTML). Super simple, super lightweight. Never really understood why site generation needed custom tools, on demand page generation, databases, etc for what amounts to the web equivalent of a mail merge.
- eckza 11y agoVery cool... can I get a link?
- mondoshawan 11y agoIts on my server, which is currently offline. I'll see if I can dig up the source in a day or so.
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- eckza 11y agoTrue. However, I'm very new to web development, and I went with what I'm learning. Also, I wanted to build something that other people like me (who aren't necessarily web people) could use without having to think about it too hard. Heroku's deployment strategy (i.e., "git push heroku master") makes the whole thing dead simple.
- kristianp 11y agoAs someone who has programmed in both, I don't agree. Ruby is a lot more fun than programming in shell. I would recommend learning shell programming as well though.