static

Static is a simple static site generator written in Clojure. For a sample site build using static see http://nakkaya.com

Features

Static can parse org-mode and markdown files.

Dependencies

Static requires the leiningen build tool. Once installed, you can build Static with the following commands from within the project directory structure:

$ lein deps
$ lein uberjar

Usage

Creating a static site usually involves the following,

• Set up the basic structure of the site
• Create some posts
• Run your site locally to see how it looks
• Deploy your site

A basic static site usually looks something like this:

.
|-- config.clj
`-- resources
    |-- posts
    |   |-- 2009-04-17-back-up-and-restore-a-mysql-database.markdown
    |   |-- 2010-02-10-a-simple-clojure-irc-client.markdown
    |   `-- 2010-08-02-using-clojure-contrib-generic-interfaces.markdown
    |-- public
    |   `-- 404.html
    |-- site
    |   `-- index.markdown
    `-- templates
        `-- default.clj

An overview of what each of these does:

config.clj

Contains a vector of configuration options.

• :site-title - Title of the site.
• :site-description - Description of the site.
• :site-url - URL of the site
• :in-dir - Directory containing site content by default resources/
• :out-dir - Directory to save compiled files.
• :default-template - Default template to use.
• :encoding - Encoding to use for read write operations.
• :posts-per-page - Number of posts in latest post pages.
• :blog-as-index - If true use blog as index.
• :emacs - path to emacs if you want to render .org files.
• :host - remote host to deploy to.
• :user - remote username
• :port - Remote SSH port
• :deploy-dir - Remote directory to deploy to.

posts/

Folder containing posts, the format of these files are important, as named as YEAR-MONTH-DATE-title.MAKDOWN.

public/

Folder containing static data such as images, css, javascript etc. Folder structure will be mirrored exactly.

site/

Folder containing pages that are not posts.

templates/

Folder containing templates that are used to render posts and pages with.

Installation

You need to place the uberjar lein created to the folder containing config.clj.

Building the site

$ java -jar static.jar -b

Testing the site

You can test the site locally using jetty, which will launch on http://localhost:8080.

$ java -jar static.jar -j

Deploying the site

SFTP

$ java -jar static.jar --ssh

RSYNC

$ java -jar static.jar --rsync

License

Copyright (C) 2010

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License, the same as Clojure.