I&#x27;m working on a little static site generator now for my own site.  The PHP&#x2F;SQL wordpress kind of option just annoys me and have held me back from publishing altogether (don&#x27;t even get me started on publishing services and social media sites.<p>Well, stuff like hugo, nanoc, ikiwiki... inspirational!<p>My static site generator is using rake for file rules to do stuff with git hooks.  It&#x27;s going to depend on Ruby, but won&#x27;t be a &quot;Ruby framework&quot;.  Rake might as well run php, perl, a bash script or a binary.  Rake is just a wonderful tool for the job, and Ruby is about as ubiquitous as Perl these days.<p>Here&#x27;s some inspiration: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;patshaughnessy.net&#x2F;2015&#x2F;1&#x2F;8&#x2F;using-rake-to-generate-a-blog" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;patshaughnessy.net&#x2F;2015&#x2F;1&#x2F;8&#x2F;using-rake-to-generate-a-...</a><p>Be sure to check out the &quot;power rake&quot; talk he mentions if you haven&#x27;t already.<p>Edit: one more thought.  On the idea of teaching casual users &quot;git&quot;, I think that&#x27;s an amazing idea.  It touches on tip of an iceberg: computer&#x2F;scientific&#x2F;technological literacy gaps.  If our technologies continue down the path of &quot;black magic,&quot; with the ever extreme dichotomy of priests who know the secrets vs. ordinary&#x2F;&quot;dumb&quot; people who are locked out of the inner knowledge, it&#x27;s just not going to be conducive to a bright future.<p>Remember, regular people are dependent on technology, but have begun to develop superstitions about how it works.  It&#x27;s magic to people!<p>This is such a deep issue.