Jekyll quick post shell script

Here’s a quick script I wrote to create blog posts for my jekyll blog.

usage

jk_quickpost.rb title [categories [filetype]]

title
Used as the title, description and slug
categories
Comma or space separated list. It’ll try separating by commas first and then spaces if commas didn’t work.
filetype
Any filetype that jekyll supports. EG: md, markdown, textile, html, etc..

example

jk_quickpost.rb "Hello world!" "my, blog post, of, doom" "textile"

Notes

The @ROOT path in this script is set to the present working directory. My personal version is set to the full path to my jekyll _posts directory.

I have it pushing the new blog post to an origin remote in the master branch. You might want to change that to a gh-pages branch instead.

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