middleman.rb
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Middleman is a static site renderer that provides all the conveniences of a modern web stack, like Ruby on Rails, while remaining focused on building the fastest, most-professional sites possible

Install Middleman:

 gem install middleman

To accomplish its goals, Middleman supports provides access to:

Command-line tools:

  • mm-init: A tool for creating to new static sites.
  • mm-server: A tool for rapidly developing your static site.
  • mm-build: A tool for exporting your site into optimized HTML, CSS & JS.

Tons of templating languages including:

  • ERB (.erb)
  • Interpolated String (.str)
  • Sass (.sass)
  • Scss (.scss)
  • Haml (.haml)
  • Sass (.sass)
  • Less CSS (.less)
  • Builder (.builder)
  • Liquid (.liquid)
  • RDiscount (.markdown)
  • RedCloth (.textile)
  • RDoc (.rdoc)
  • Radius (.radius)
  • Markaby (.mab)
  • Nokogiri (.nokogiri)
  • Mustache (.mustache)
  • CoffeeScript (.coffee)

Compile-time Optimiztions

  • Javascript Minifiers: YUI, Google Closure & UglifyJS
  • Smush.it Image Compression
  • CSS Minification

Robust Extensions:

Add your own runtime and build-time features!

Next Steps:

 

      		
    

    

      
        

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 Setup out load paths

      		
      
        
libdir = File.dirname(__FILE__)
$LOAD_PATH.unshift(libdir) unless $LOAD_PATH.include?(libdir)

      		
    

    

      
        

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 Require Rubygems (probably not necessary)

      		
      
        
require 'rubygems'

      		
    

    

      
        

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 Top-level Middleman object

      		
      
        
module Middleman

      		
    

    

      
        

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 Auto-load modules on-demand

      		
      
        
  autoload :Server, "middleman/server"
  

      		
    

    

      
        

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 Custom Renderers

      		
      
        
  module Renderers
    autoload :Haml, "middleman/renderers/haml"
    autoload :Sass, "middleman/renderers/sass"
  end

      		
    

    

      
        

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 Features API


      		
      
        
  autoload :Features, "middleman/features"
end