GUS is a textile and mustache static-site generator.

GUS takes textile files, puts them into a type-specific template, and then places that all into a site-wide layout template.

Run the example by ./gus site:rendered

Run the example by ./gus -w site:rendered and as you make changes, the site will be rerendered

What Gus assumes

Gus assumes that there are 3 directories in your site folder:

• assets
• pages
• templates

and two files

• properties.yml
• templates/layout.mustache

the contents of properties.yml is visible too the mustache templates.

Gus also assumes that there is a page-types entry in properties.yml. Beneath page-types are the list of pages and their associated output directories.

page-types:
   posts:
      web-directory: /posts
      indices:
         tags: 
            over:
               - tags
            web-directory: /posts/tags
         date:
            over:
               - date-year
               - date-month
               - date-day
            web-directory: /posts/by-date
   top-level:
      web-directory: /

Indexes generated from metadata can be specified here too. web-directory is the directory the index will be placed in, named after over. For instances, all posts with a tag of "idea" will be placed in /posts/tags/idea according to the above. Composite indices, date in the above example, have an "over" specified by an array as opposed to a single field. If more than one field is specified, then indexes are created for each "layer". For instance, in the above example a /2013.html will be created, a /2013/01.html and a /2013/01/11.html will be created. Each has the pages that match the criteria.

Eventually post-processing (e.g. minification) will also be able to be specified in this structure.

For each type listed, there is assumed to be a folder of the same name in pages/ and a file of the same name in templates/. Each index has a template named "(page-type)-index-(index-name).mustache".

Format for pages

Lines beginning with % are metadata lines (and get removed from the rendered output). See the next section for more details.

After lines begining with % are removed, the file is run through a markdown to HTML generator as one of:

• Textile, for textile extentions
• Markdown, for md extentions
• nothing, for anything else

After this, the pages are put into a page template, which is what is shown if the page contents are shown elsewhere, like the / page.

The page, rendered in the page template, is then put into the layout.mustache file, which is used when writing the rendered page to a file

Metadata

Metadata lines have the format of (start of line)%key(space)value with possible spaces(end of line) Some default keys are

• title
• date
• tags (space separated)
• private (won't show page in indexes)

The keys are available in the mustache environment when render both the page and layout.

Misc

In the misc folder are apache and nginx configs for a bare site as well as a git post-update hook. These should help get you started towards getting a server up and going. Mind you, please read these files carefully and audit them and your server's security yourself.