A test post with Thor
I found this little tool that helps create a post for github-pages with Jekyll from the command line. It creates the file with the appropriate URL-friendly name and it opens your choice editor so you can start writing your content immediately.
Usage
Make sure you have the thor and stringex gems, then create a jekyll.thor
file in the root directory of your github-pages project with the following
content:
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require "stringex"
class Jekyll < Thor
desc "new", "create a new post"
method_option :editor, :default => "vim"
def new(*title)
title = title.join(" ")
date = Time.now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
filename = "_posts/#{date}-#{title.to_url}.md"
if File.exist?(filename)
abort("#{filename} already exists!")
end
puts "Creating new post: #{filename}"
open(filename, 'w') do |post|
post.puts "---"
post.puts "layout: post"
post.puts "title: \"#{title.gsub(/&/,'&')}\""
post.puts "tags: []"
post.puts "category: general"
post.puts "---"
end
system(options[:editor], filename)
end
end
I modified it so it uses vim as the default editor, the tags are a
one-liner list and there is a default category.
Update (Mar 20, 2014): of course I didn’t say how to use it, forgot it, and now had to came back to the same link and read it again. Here it is for a more immediate reference:
thor jekyll:new The title of the new post