Learn

Talk with a colleague and find out why we're using building some of our sites using static site generators instead of Rails.

You should talk about:

• Ease of development
• Security issues and maintenance costs

Read through the Middleman docs Show archive.org snapshot :

• What can it do?
• What can't it do?
• What parts do you know from Rails?

Practice

• Checkout the repo for the makandra blog Show archive.org snapshot
• Start the preview server
• Make some changes, review them on localhost:4567
• Add a new page /animals/your-favorite-animal that has some facts about your favorite animal. E.g. if your favorite animal is a Capybara, add a page /animals/capybara. Review your changes on http://localhost:4567.
• Build static assets
• Push changes + generated assets it into a branch
• Deploy the changes
• View the changes on http://blog.makandra.de/capybara Show archive.org snapshot .