Scagen

Scagen, pronounced [ska-gin], is a flexible site generating tool, which allows for multiple markup dialects to convert easily to html.

Goals

• It is useful to me
• The app is flexible
• The library is extensible

App

Kick it off rather easily with n8han's conscript tool. Follow his steps for installation.

Once you have conscript, installing scagen is as simple as

cs philcali/scagen

Usage

All inputs are defaults values. I've copied the usage straight from the source:

Usage: scagen [-h] [-r] [-i base-dir] [-o output-dir] [-t template] [-s stylesheet]
-h help:       Prints this help
-r recursive:  Crawls recursively, and copies to output, mirroring input (defaults false)
-i base-dir:   Base directory to begin conversion (defaults .)
-o output-dir: Output the conversion here (defaults converted)
-t template:   Path to base template (defaults to base.ssp, which is included)
-s stylesheet: Path to stylesheet (defaults to main.css, which is included)

So, an example would be

scagen -r -i ~/working -o ~/Dropbox/Public

With this definition, scagen would recursively looks in working, copying everything it finds into ~/Dropbox/Public converting .mds, .htmls, .txts, or .textiles it finds using a base.tpl you have in your working, or the one the library provides. Obviously, providing a path to the template and style sheet will give you more customization.

For Developers

Crawl anything and everything.... Talk about this more as the library becomes more refined with use.