I wasn't a big fan of the Jekyll workflow, especially when I wanted to write a simple post from another device. My solution to that, an app that wrapped Jekyll,

I wasn't a big fan of the Jekyll workflow, especially when I wanted to write a simple post from another device. My solution to that, an app that wrapped Jekyll, just felt hacky. Instead, I just made a Rails app with fifteen minutes spent dropping in Active Admin and RDiscount to render @post.body Markdown into @post.rendered_body HTML. Then, I aggressively cached pages into the static `public/` directory. I chose Rails simply because I'm using Rails for more serious apps and I wanted a casual app that I could take seriously enough to practice on. Otherwise, I'd have as much fun building the same thing in any other Ruby framework for Ruby practice and then cache the pages into a static directory. Isn't that what any other static site generator does?