gen_blog is a tool that can be used to generate a blog website from a collection of .adoc files. It uses the Acsiidoctor tool to generate the .html pages of each of the .adoc files. It generates an index.html page that lists the title, author, date, and estimated reading time (200 words/minute) for each .adoc file.
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Ability to set a heading, each adoc page should link back to the main page?
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Configure 'contact me' information (github, twitter, email, website)
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Want to include 'tags' to have a way to limit the posts to specific tags, also do a cool 'word art' based on the frequency of the tags usage with a link to the tags page
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Asciidoc files on a static webpage
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Clean look, white text on a black background
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Each entry will have a Title, author, date, time to read, text (5? lines of text will be shown on the main page)
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Links to other pages in the blog, arrange the content by date (reverse with newest entries on top)
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Metadata tags for blog entries?
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Don’t care about view statistics, running javascript, just display asciidoc formatted pages
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Each entry will have a link back to the main page
Treat the generation of the blog as something that can be auto-deployed from a github repo
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Setup a webserver
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Generate a keypair
ssh-keygen -
Copy the public key to github (or similar git hosting site)
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Set up a cron job for the webserver to check in with the git server using ssh (hourly?), copy files that have changed to a specified directory (
~/blog?) and then use asciidoctor and a bash script to generate the content and write the content to/var/www/html/
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Generate the header
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Generate the 'contact me' area
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TODO: Select the first 10 lines of each of the adoc files (reverse sorted by date) - not done yet, not sure how to do this…