Moving to Jekyll and Disqus

First post from my newly migrated blog reviewing migration from wordpress to Jekyll and Disqus.

• Jekyll for site generation.
• Sass for simplified css goodness.
• Pygments code highlighting.
• Disqus

Following some of the sites which use Jekyll, I generated the skeleton and began building my site using Jekyll. After trialing some of the code highlighting options I selected pygments, this was to ensure my code samples looked good.

Once the base was configured and working I moved on to add a plugin to utilise Sass in my website. Below is source to my _plugins/sass_converter.rb, this converts any scss (CSS like sass syntax) files to css.

module Jekyll
  # Sass plugin to convert .scss to .css
  #
  # Note: This is configured to use the new css like syntax available in sass.
  require 'sass'
  class SassConverter < Converter
    safe true
    priority :low

     def matches(ext)
      ext =~ /scss/i
    end

    def output_ext(ext)
      ".css"
    end

    def convert(content)
      begin
        puts "Performing Sass Conversion."
        engine = Sass::Engine.new(content, :syntax => :scss)
        engine.render
      rescue StandardError => e
        puts "!!! SASS Error: " + e.message
      end
    end
  end
end