d.goodlad.net Sources

This is the source to David Goodlad's personal website.

I'm making this source available for anyone who's interested to see a sample nanoc-managed site in action. I use markdown (rdiscount) for most of my written work, and compass-susy/sass to style my pages.

Setup

To build the site yourself, and play around, you'll need to have Ruby 1.9.2 (It may work on 1.8.7, but no guarantees!), rubygems, and bundler. Then:

$ bundle install
Fetching source index from ... [snip]

$ guard

This will fire up Guard, which will watch for any file changes and recompile the site. I like it better than the built-in nanoc autocompiler, since it's a lot more flexible and seems to be more accurate. Pressing Ctrl-\ will force guard to recompile the site, which is a good thing to do when you first clone the project.

You'll probably want to run a simple webserver locally to serve up pages; I use Python's SimpleHTTPServer library to do so, since there doesn't seem to be anything like this available in Ruby-land:

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer

You'll now have access to your locally-generated site at http://localhost:8000/.