This is the code and content for mark-bodell.net, which is a collection of genealogical information and family history stories and journals, etc. related to the ancestors of Mark and Bodell Esplin.
The content is stored as markdown compatible text files. A ruby script converts these files to html (with maruku) and gives them a layout (with liquid). So the end result is a collection of static html files.
The most important priority of this project is to preserve historical data, not create a feature rich website. All the static site generators I looked at required the text files to have special headers to give hints to the html converter. And I wanted the text files to be the canonical source for the data and in a format that will never become unreadable or obsolete.
Also, most of the static site generators had a bunch of blog-related or other advanced features that would only get in the way for this simple project.
- Install docker and docker-compose.
docker-compose updocker-compose run --rm web bundle exec ruby converter.rbdocker-compose run --rm web bundle exec ruby converter.rb $PATH_TO_FILE