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33 lines
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h1. About
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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.
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Ace chose an OOP approach
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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!
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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
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h1. Why you should be interested in ace?
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In Ace, every page is an instance
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Typically I want to define methods, like @post.excerpt
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There are also *generators* available for easier generating items on the fly.
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Ace has *template inheritance*. I love template inheritance, it's more flexible pattern than layouts.
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Tasks for deployment are included.
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h1. The boot process
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# Load @boot.rb@ where the
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# load the rules (controllers / globs mapping)
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# load & instantiate the items: only the renderables (concrete post)
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# run the filters, layoutin' ... actually this can be defined in the controller
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# match the routes, write the files
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h1. Links
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* "Ace: Static Sites Generator":http://blog.101ideas.cz/posts/ace-static-site-generator.html
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