Building static websites with nanoc

Lately I've been willing to build a blog but I couldn't find any solution that really pleased me.

I tried tons of online blogging softwares as well as offline ones but I was always frustrated to be unable to use my daily environment (vim + console) to write for my blog.

While reading Vincent Driessen's blog about git branching I noticed that the blog was made with nanoc. After a rapid google query, I found what it was about and I was surprised to find it was exactly what I needed.

I know and use Sinatra already, but it did not occur to me that I could use a tool like sinatra to build my website. The only advantage of nanoc is that it generates static webpages, which are faster and easier to deploy.

This blog post is basically a test run for nanoc, so it's not very interesting. I'll write a little howto when my setup is complete.