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Jekyll has support for drafts. Write your post in _drafts, and then move it to _posts when you are ready to publish.
by conroy 13y ago
Jekyll has support for drafts. Write your post in _drafts, and then move it to _posts when you are ready to publish.
- minimaxir 13y agoEven better, Octopress in Jekyll allows you to simply add a published: false flag at the beginning of the post to label it as a draft.
- MatthewPhillips 13y agoJekyll is too complicated. First, it requires a .yml config file, which is unused outside of the Ruby community. So this fails my "you shouldn't have to know what language it is written in requirement". Personally I don't think there should be any config files at all, but if you're going to require a minimal one at least pick something universal and easy to understand, like an rc file or maybe json. Secondly it has the weird _ naming thing. Jekyll was clearly made for Ruby developers, which is fine I just think the world needs something much simpler than that.
- eropple 13y agoYAML is unused outside of the Ruby community? Wacky. I guess all my YAML configuration files in C++ and Java and .NET aren't a thing.
- MatthewPhillips 13y agoYAML is unused as a configuration file for end users. Or at least it should be.
- reinhardt 13y agoI'm curious who are these end users that would be scared / turned off by yaml but are totally cool with markdown.
- trvrprkr 13y agoYAML was crafted to be usable by most mere mortals. Whether or not it achieves that in practice is another issue ... but I think most people who find themselves using a static-site generator could find their way around a YAML config file just fine.
- sneak 13y agoYAML is a much better choice than the two you suggested. "rc file"s have no defined format, and json is a poorer choice than YAML. I loathe ruby and still use Jekyll because I never have to touch ruby code to use it. I use it specifically _because it is dead simple_. You're making stuff up.
- dasil003 13y agoYAML is okay when used in a simple manner such as for a basic configuration file, but it has a seriously fucked up spec with all kinds of landmines waiting to blow your legs off. If you aren't generating your YAML with @ruby_object.to_yaml then sooner or later something bad will happen to you. That's why I prefer TOML. I wish more projects would pick it up for config. https://github.com/mojombo/toml https://github.com/mojombo/toml
- MatthewPhillips 13y ago> "rc file"s have no defined format Why does that matter in this case?
- swanson 13y agoThat isn't Octopress doing it btw, that is a feature in Jekyll.