Customizing the Blog

Ruby Static Pro uses the Middleman Blogging Extension to run its blog component.

The blog configuration is in the config.rb file. This is where you can specify the permalink structure, paging details and more.

Blog Index

The blog index is located located at /source/blog.html.erb.

Customize this file to change the index page.

Blog Layout

Each blog post uses the same layout. Lets assume you wanted to add something to that layout, maybe a call to action, or an ad or something of that nature.

To do that, you’d edit the blog layout file located here:

/source/layouts/blog_layout.erb

Any changes you make to this file will be present on each blog page.

Blog Tags

When on the blog index, you’ll see tags like this:

When you click on a blog tag you’ll be taken to the tag page that lists all the articles that have that tag.

You can edit this layout by editing the /source/tag.html.erb file.