Perron – Rails-based static site generator

Perron is a Rails-based static site generator for building static websites.

It follows familiar Rails conventions, allowing developers to create content collections with Markdown or ERB, use structured data within views, configure metadata, and generate production-ready static output.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Organizes Markdown and ERB content into collections.
• Uses familiar Ruby on Rails conventions and development patterns.
• Loads structured data from YAML, JSON, and CSV files.
• Supports Rails-style views, partial rendering, and helpers.
• Provides flexible access to data using dot or hash notation.
• Supports Enumerable methods for filtering, sorting, and processing data.
• Generates configurable XML sitemaps.
• Creates Atom, JSON, and RSS feeds for content collections.
• Supports SEO metadata and custom static routes.
• Provides hooks that run before and after site builds.

Website: github.com/Rails-Designer/perron
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Developer: Rails Designer Developers
License: MIT License

Perron is written in Ruby. Learn Ruby with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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