Rizzo: Like Static Site Generation, But In Groovy (Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 1:37 PM; groovy, rizzo)
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I have been insanely interested in static publishing since I first understood the point that Tom Preston-Werner was trying to make in Blogging Like A Hacker. That post was written in 2008 to announce Jekyll. There is a Python counterpart called (of course) Hyde. And it seems that at some point, this form of publishing became somewhat popular, as is evidenced by a list of 32 static website generators posted earlier this year.
So, to get to the point: Last month, I pointed out that there was not yet a static site generator in Groovy. Being myself less than wonderfully excited about setting up Jekyll and becoming expert in Liquid, I wrote one. It is a sort of a small Groovy script, currently at about 175 lines, and it supports tags, templates, and Atom syndication (there is a feed for your entire site as well as a feed for each tag you use). It is available on GitHub, and I have written such explanatory text as I can currently think up on the project's wiki.
(By the way: Yes, Rizzo is named after that Rizzo. If you take the time to dig through the code, you will also find references to dickens, scrooge, and fozziwig. Conclude from this what you can.)
So: There you have it. If you have any sort of feedback — positive or otherwise — feel free to leave it here. (There are, as you may have noticed, comments on this site; these are handled by Disqus. The recent flood of interest in static publishing must have been great for these guys.) And if you desire to further the cause of static publishing as Groovy knows it, I would in no way be at all angry with you. The code is on GitHub, remember, and that is why.
Thanks for reading.
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