Create a Blog With Clojure and Cryogen
I wanted to create this blog with Clojure and “Cryogen” fit the bill perfectly. Its moto succinctly states its intention “Static sites generated with Clojure”. The steps below are derived from “Practical.li - Quick Start Guide”
Getting Started
Creating the Repository
The first step is to create a cryogen repository, leningen will do this for you with:
lein new cryogen my-new-blog
Running
You can run the my-new-blog as a standalone server:
lein ring server
The page is accessible via http://localhost:3000/blog , it provides some very useful cryogen reference information.
Generating the Content
You can generate the static html content via:
lein run
The output is written to the public/ directory
Configuration
The main configuration file is content/config.edn. The main site name can be configured here. Another element you may want to change is the url prefixes.
Content Creation
The default location for posts is content/md/posts for posts, and content/md/pages for pages. The default markup engine is Markdown, however you can change to Asciidoc if you so desire.
Deployment
Nginx
Nginx can serve your generated content. Details here