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Jakub Šťastný aka Botanicus 2011-02-23 04:51:06 +00:00
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h1. About
Ace is a static page generator like "Nanoc":http://nanoc.stoneship.org, "Jekyll":https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll or "Webby":http://webby.rubyforge.org/tutorial. How is it different? Well, it's better :) ! I really like Nanoc and I used it for quite a while, but it's not flexible enough. If you need to generate a lot of pages on the fly, it's a hassle. It provides helpers, but helpers are let's face it programming style we used to use years back when we yet believed that PHP is actually a really nice language.
Ace chose an OOP approach
Another common proble of these generators is, that they are way too opinionated. Thanks Webby, but I don't give a damn about your Sitemap, thank you very much!
Also, last but not least, Ace has a real template inheritance. Layouts are for kids, real men use template inheritance! What's the advantage? It's incredibly flexible. You can have
h1. Why you should be interested in ace?
In Ace, every page is an instance
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Ace has *template inheritance*. I love template inheritance, it's more flexible pattern than layouts.
Tasks for deployment included.
Tasks for deployment are included.
h1. The boot process
# load @boot.rb@ where the
# Load @boot.rb@ where the
# load the rules (controllers / globs mapping)
# load & instantiate the items: only the renderables (concrete post)
# run the filters, layoutin' ... actually this can be defined in the controller