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Shelob is a static website generator for creating customizable renditions of Gollum wiki. This can be useful when you want to maintain a standalone website, but you want to update it through the Gollum wiki interface, e.g. via GitHub.
Shelob depends on Smeagol, a read-only web server for Gollum.
You can install Shelob with RubyGems:
$ [sudo] gem install shelob
And then, if you want code highlighting, follow the Installation Guide for Pygments.
Ta da! You're ready to go.
The first thing you need to do is clone your Gollum wiki repo.
$ git clone git@github.com:user/user.github.com.git
Of course, you want to customize your site to suit your style. To do this you
need to add some some support files. Use the init command to have Shelob
put the default files in place.
$ cd path/to/wiki
$ shelob-init
Note, this is practically identical to using smeagol-init, so if had already
done that there is no need to do this.
In your wiki this will add a few files. One of these is _settings.yml which you
use to configure Shelob for your site. See SETTINGS below.
There will also be a file called _layouts/default.html. Using Mustache
templating use this file to create a custom page layout for your site.
To learn more about the variables available for use in this template see
the Shelob Wiki.
Be sure to add these files to commit these files to your repo. You can just check these files in and push to the server. It will not effect you Gollum wiki in any way.
The _settings.yml file allows you to configure certain behaviors of Shelob.
An example _settings.yml file:
---
title: 7R4N5.C0D3
url: http://trans.github.com
author: trans
description:
Trans Programming Blog
source_url: http://github.com/trans
menu:
- title: Homepage
href: "/"
- title: RSS Feed
href: "/rss.xml"
- title: Projects
href: "http://github.com/trans"
See the documentation for more details about each field and others that are available.
To preview your site via shelob, simply change directories to your Gollum repository
and run shelob-preview from the command line:
$ cd /path/to/repo
$ shelob-preview
This will run a web server at http://localhost:4567. You can change the port
by setting the --port or -p option on the command line.
If your site can be deployed by pushing to a git repository, Shelob can be used to do so.
$ shelob-deploy
Have a great idea for Shelob? Awesome. Fork the repository and add a feature or fix a bug. There are a couple things I ask:
- Create an appropriately named topic branch that contains your change.
- Please try to provide tests for all code you check in.
Note that Shelob uses QED, Citron and AE for testing. And admittedly the project is water-falling too much at present. So if you would like to contribute, but don't have any specific request, writing a few tests would be a great help.
Shelob is distributed under the terms of the BSD-2-Clause license.
- Copyright 2012 Trans, Rubyworks
- Copyright 2009 Ben Johnson
Please see LICENSE.txt file for details.