Set up a developer blog with syntax-highlighted code snippets pulled from GitHub Gists using rake tasks
Deploy a static website to GitHub Pages with a single rake command without managing server infrastructure
Embed code samples from local files with automatic Solarized color scheme highlighting in blog posts
Connect Google Analytics and Disqus comments to a blog by editing one config file
| imathis/octopress | freecodecamp/how-to-contribute-to-open-source | antiwork/gumroad | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 9,254 | 9,280 | 9,072 |
| Language | Ruby | Ruby | Ruby |
| Setup difficulty | moderate | easy | hard |
| Complexity | 3/5 | 1/5 | 4/5 |
| Audience | developer | general | developer |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Requires Ruby and Bundler, run bundle install to get Jekyll and rake dependencies.
Octopress is a blogging framework built on top of Jekyll, a tool that generates static websites from plain text files. A static website does not run code on a server when someone visits it, instead, it consists of pre-built HTML pages that load quickly and require minimal hosting. Octopress takes the foundational pieces that Jekyll provides and wraps them in a polished setup with a ready-to-use theme and helpful automation. Out of the box, Octopress gives you a clean, responsive theme written in semantic HTML5, meaning it is designed to read well on both desktop and mobile screens. Code publishing is treated as a first-class feature: you can embed syntax-highlighted code directly in blog posts, pulling from GitHub Gists, jsFiddle, or files on your own computer, with a color scheme called Solarized applied automatically. The framework ships with built-in support for several common blogging services. You can connect it to Disqus for comments, Google Analytics for traffic tracking, Pinboard and Delicious for bookmarks, and GitHub Repositories to display your projects. A set of rake tasks, which are scripted commands you run from a terminal, simplifies the process of building and publishing the site so you do not have to handle those steps manually. Note that this repository represents the older 2.x line of Octopress. At the time the README was last updated, version 3.0 was under development in a separate repository. The 2.x version shown here is no longer being actively developed, though the documentation site at Octopress.org covers its usage. The project is open source under the MIT license, meaning you can use, modify, and distribute it freely. The author asks that users display a "Powered by Octopress" credit in their site footer if they want to support the project's visibility.
A blogging framework built on Jekyll that generates fast static websites from plain text files, with a polished responsive theme, syntax-highlighted code embedding, and rake commands for building and publishing, now in maintenance mode at version 2.x.
Mainly Ruby. The stack also includes Ruby, Jekyll, Rake.
Free to use, modify, and distribute for any purpose, keep the copyright notice and optionally display a Powered by Octopress credit in your site footer.
Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.
Mainly developer.
This repo across BitVibe Labs
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