Using Jekyll to generate our blog

May 11, 2009

Welcome to our blog. We have been working for nearly five months to create a simple and effective stock portfolio management tool.

Much of our energy this year has been devoted to building our web app, Realized-app. Taking a few hours to look into a blog architecture was a welcome change in direction. Very quickly we settled on Jekyll for use as a blog generator.

Jekyll is written in Ruby. Because of that, we are confident that if our needs outgrow Jekyll, we should be able to bolt something on without too much difficulty. One of its early proponents, Henrik Nyh did just that by adding support for Haml. Using Haml allowed us to streamline the design of our blog archive page.

Look for the launch of the Realized-app blog soon, also to be built on Jekyll.

Tags: Ruby