Creating a New Post in Jekyll with Rake

Just a quick and dirty rake task that lets you run this:

rake np -- The Post Title

…to set up a new post in Jekyll and open it in Sublime Text 2.

If you prefer another editor, then swap the subl command for the appropriate CLI command for your editor.

require 'rubygems'
require 'optparse'
require 'yaml'

task :np do
  OptionParser.new.parse!
  ARGV.shift
  title = ARGV.join(' ')

  path = "_posts/#{Date.today}-#{title.downcase.gsub(/[^[:alnum:]]+/, '-')}.markdown"
  
  if File.exist?(path)
  	puts "[WARN] File exists - skipping create"
  else
    File.open(path, "w") do |file|
      file.puts YAML.dump({'layout' => 'post', 'published' => false, 'title' => title})
      file.puts "---"
    end
  end
  `subl #{path}`

  exit 1
end

Also available here as a gist.

11 Feb 2012