Photish is focused on photo based websites. Using a collection of albums in a folder, some templates defined in the language of your choice and some (optional) accompanying metadata in a YAML file, Photish will transcode your images into your desired formats (using ImageMagick) and parse and render the templates against your photo collection.
Transcoding large photo collections can take time, Photish does it's best to speed up this process by creating multiple threads to allow ImageMagick transcodes to run in parallel. It also caches all transcodes to avoid regeneration as you develop your site locally.
Try it out, let me know what you think! The project is in it's early days but it is in a working and performant state. Happy to take feature requests and or pull requests.
I use Jekyll for static sites but for photo galleries Sigal is my go-to solution as it is fast and stable and works very well for generating a static photo gallery.
Nice work on the demo, too.
I also use Jekyll, it has been the perfect tool for my blog.
Also, I haven't looked at the code but the first thing I do when looking at Ruby projects is look for test/spec directory. Kudos for having it and testing your library
A demo is available running "photish init --example && photish host", the design is kinda embarrassing though so I wouldn't want people misjudging the possibilities of what you can create with my poor example site design :)
Thanks for poking around, testing is important to me too. There are also feature tests with cucumber/aruba in the /features directory.
photish init --example && photish host
Once I put together a nice template and some example sites I they would better showcase my HTML/CSS/JavaSCript and design skills rather then what Photish can do. Theoretically any design could be created using Photish as the templates and assets are completely up to you. The tool just takes care of the generation.
I was keen to contribute to it (to try add other template engines, caching, etc.) however it is written in bash and the script is over 900 lines and doesn't have a test suite yet. Not being too proficient in bash I was a bit anxious about diving in and contributing.
I think I'd like for expose to remain a simple(ish) script that you don't have to think too much about. For something more fully-featured with actual templating, caching, plugins etc bash is not quite the right tool imo.
I'm glad there are more options in the "photo-oriented SSG" space.