imathis/octopress — Issue #341: `octopress create`: generate a basic jekyll project
Author: aiwilliams
Created: 2011-12-22 18:55:47+00:00
State: open

This issue depends on getting a version of Jekyll that [fixes this](https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/blob/master/bin/jekyll#L214) to respect the configured destination (so that we may have a deploy strategy of public in the root of the project), instead of hard-coding ```_site```, and also respects the [Exclude filter](https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/configuration) so that our _sass directory can be at the root. At least, I think :)

Historically, we have maintained this structure (partial):

```
.
|-- public
|-- sass
|-- source
|-- _layouts
|-- _posts
| |-- 2007-10-29-why-every-programmer-should-play-nethack.textile
| `-- 2009-04-26-barcamp-boston-4-roundup.textile
```

We are exploring an even more jekyll default approach:

```
.
|-- _config.yml
|-- _includes
|-- _layouts
| |-- default.html
| `-- post.html
|-- _posts
| |-- 2007-10-29-why-every-programmer-should-play-nethack.textile
| `-- 2009-04-26-barcamp-boston-4-roundup.textile
|-- _sass
|-- _site
`-- index.html
```