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gma / nesta

File Based CMS and Static Site Generator
http://nestacms.com
MIT License
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Question: ERB support #196

Closed olimart closed 1 year ago

olimart commented 1 year ago

Hello and thanks for sharing Nesta. Just wondering what it would take to support ERB templates?

Thanks.

gma commented 1 year ago

Hi. They're supported — have you seen these docs?

https://nestacms.com/docs/design/templating-engines

I'm planning on making ERB the default before long, just because more people will be familiar, and the whole file-based CMS thing has kind of blown up since I made Haml the default!

Let me know if you've got more questions...

gma commented 1 year ago

Also, check the version 0.14.0 release blog post if you'd like to use it as a static site generator. I've not had time to write the full docs for that yet (SSG is a new feature), but the bits you need are all mentioned in that post.

olimart commented 1 year ago

Great.

I read https://nestacms.com/docs/creating-content/

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Thank you.

gma commented 1 year ago

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Ah yes, the docs talk about "templates" and "content" separately, which perhaps isn't that obvious when you're just getting setup for the first time. And that mention of Haml is a bit misleading too. It's accurate though; you can't create an ERB page inside ./content/pages, ERB is currently only supported for templates in ./views.