I got tired on creating new files manually for each new post a write so I put together this little command line task with Thor.
It creates a new file in the _posts directory with today’s date, parses the parameters to command as the post’s title and adds that as a slug to the new file. It then writes a default yaml template to the file (as specified in the script).
Running thor jekyll:new New and shiny post will for example create the file _posts/2012-12-28-new-and-shiny-post.markdown, populate it with an yaml template and finally open the file in my favorite editor.
Add the following to your Gemfile: