Middleman vs GitHub pages

[rpearce]

Hi! Just a few thoughts here to get things rolling...

Is there any reason to get fancy with Middleman? If you're just going to have a static page which only needs to do a call to meetup.com to get meetup info, is there a reason to complicate things? Custom GitHub pages are easy to maintain and remove practically all complexity, making it easy for newcomers to contribute.

http://pages.github.com/
http://jekyllrb.com/docs/github-pages/

I'd be glad to set this up if you like.

[csexton]

I am cool with that. Originally I had set it up to be jekyll and decided to give middle man a try mostly out of curiosity.

I can live without slim (although I might 😢) I do want to keep around the sass and coffee, but I think this approach would be a great solution to that.

I do prefer the ability to edit in the browser that jekyll gives you -- and makes it easy to add pages without having to go through a build step.

[csexton]

That was pretty straight forward. I moved a few files around and reconfigured it for jekyll. It is a pretty basic setup -- would be nice if we could add things like a layout for blog posts (which would be great for information about the conference) and some of the other niceties of jekyll.

I also renamed the repo, so you (@rpearce and @jwieringa‎) may need to update your .git/config file to point git@github.com:arlingtonruby/arlingtonruby.github.io.git

[rpearce]

Wow that was fast!

Yeah +1 for Sass and CoffeeScript