Static site generator based upon directories & files

Question

I am looking for a nice way to generate a nested site structure in ruby. I want something that I can propose to clients instead of msword documents. Something of the form:

Home/
  index.txt
  About.txt
  Services/
    index.txt
    products.txt
    blahblah.txt

with the .txt files being markdown, or whatever.

I actually want to import this into a cms system, and just want to hook into whichever static-site generator that I can use.

Otherwise I will do it myself, but it would be nice to use something else for integration with html preprocessors etc.

Answer 1

Take a look at Jekyll

Answer 2

there is also middleman for generating static sites