Jekyll was something I've been meaning to try for ages. I never found a getting started section on the wiki and this blog was exactly what I was looking for.

oh please!! then what is this?

http://jekyllrb.com/docs/structure/

Yeah that's a fair point ;) To be honest though I never actually noticed the Getting started section on the right of the screen. I've never visited the site with the intention of building a site with jekyll at that moment so I was just skimming. If all the Getting started section pages were a single long page at http://jekyllrb.com/docs/home/ (like the sinatra docs) then I probably would have noticed them. I realise this is probably ridiculously pedantic though, I'm sure I would have found the information if I was trying to actually get started rather than just get a feel for how it works.

If anything a plugin tutorial would be what Jekyll seems to need the most. The small example on the wiki wasn't exactly helpful to me.

I guess if what Jekyll or Octopress provides out of the box they are the best choice at the moment. At least that's probably why they are so incredibly popular.

I started writing my own solution but I realized once you get past a certain point it's actually pretty hard to design something like this. And with the amount of static site generators out there it wouldn't ever have a chance to compete no matter how good it would be.

I wish it was easy to just replace the Liquid templates completely. No template inheritance irks me the most.

I guess that falls into Ruby dev and less Jekyll stuff?

Is your reply supposed to be sarcastic? I can't see the joke here. tuananh made a good point.

Note: notice who's the commenter and OP.

EDIT: the currently deleted parent comment was:

   [benhowdle89] 1 hour ago | [link]
   Me neither! Awful post.

why did u submit it in the first place!?