Represents a lingering unhapiness with jekyll, and a stupid impulse to write it all myself.

Ghostwriter builds the entire site at http://blog.roomanna.com. For an example, try building the example site under testsite. Run:

$ cd testsite
$ go run ../*.go --watch

Note that the --watch flag will re-run Ghostwriter if it picks up filesystem changes. So editing a site is as easy as changing the source directory and reloading the page in your browser.

You can serve the output with:

$ go run ../*.go --watch --serve=:8080

Which will host the rendered site at http://localhost:8080. The value you pass to the --server flag will be forwarded to http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Server so anything that function accepts should work.

Make sure you have bazaar installed. In Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install bzr

Run:

go get gopkg.in/yaml.v2
go get github.com/russross/blackfriday
go get github.com/howeyc/fsnotify
go get github.com/kurrik/fauxfile

The goyaml library will show some warnings when compiling but it appears to have no effect.