middleman-blog¶ ↑

Create a blog with Middleman

Features¶ ↑

• metadata (yaml) for your post templates (similar to github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/YAML-Front-Matter)

• helper methods to access the metadata from every template/layout file

• template languages: markdown, textile, rdoc

TODO¶ ↑

• test suite

• better documentation

• installer/generator

• more helpers

• more build-in features (releated posts, tags etc.)

Usage¶ ↑

Example: github.com/matt-hh/middleman-blog-example

1. Install

   gem install middleman-blog
   

   Additionally you need one of the following gems for your post templates: Kramdown, Maruku, RedCloth, BlueCloth, RDiscount …

2. Create your project

   mm-init your-middleman-project

3. Create config/blogs.yml with default values

   blog:
     title: My Blog
     author: your name
     mail: your mail
     whatever: a value
   another-blog:
     title: My second Blog

   Yes, you can define default values for more than one blog…

4. Create layout files:

   blog_index.haml:

   %h1= current_blog_value('title')
   = yield

   blog_post.haml:

   %h1= current_post_value('title')
   = yield

5. Activate feature in config.rb

   require "middleman-blog"
   activate :blog_engine
   
   page "/blog/index.html", :layout => :blog_index, :layout_engine => 'haml'
   page "/blog/*", :layout => :blog_post, :layout_engine => 'haml'
   
   page "/another-blog/index.html", :blog_post => :blog_index, :layout_engine => 'haml'
   page "/another-blog/*", :blog_post => :blog_post, :layout_engine => 'haml'
   

6. Create directories in your source folder

   mkdir blog
   mkdir my-second-blog
   

   In these folders you can create your posts.

   blog/my-first-post.html.md

   title: Title of my first post
   date: 2011-06-05
   ----
   
   My first blog post...

   Important: 2 newlines between “—-” and “My first…”

Metadata¶ ↑

• “—-nnn” separates the metadata from your post data.

• metadata supports ERB

• you can define whatever you want

• special keys for blogs.yml: sort_by: name of another key (default is date) sort_direction: normal | reverse (default is reverse)

• special keys for yaml header: date: default is mtime for template file

Helper methods¶ ↑

• current_blog

• current_blog_meta(key) or current_blog

• current_post

• current_post_meta(key) or current_post

• next_post

• prev_post

• current_blog_ident

• current_post_ident

• current_post_index

Examples¶ ↑

• Link to the next post

  link_to next_post['title'], next_post['link']
  

• List of 10 last posts

  %ul
    - current_blog["posts"][0,10].each do |post|
      %li= link_to post['title'], post['link']

Links¶ ↑

• github.com/tdreyno/middleman