Creates a blank textile file with basic YAML front matter for a Jekyll blog, launches editor.

newpost.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Creates a blank textile file with basic YAML front matter for
# your Jekyll blog. Then it launches gvim so that you can start
# writing immediately.
#
# Assumes your posts are in ./blog/_posts and that you're using a layout
# called 'post'.

if ARGV.empty?
  puts "As an argument, write your new post's title. Eg 'newpost Something I want to share'."
  exit
end

title = ARGV.join(" ")
slug = title.gsub(/\s+/, '-').downcase
path = "blog/_posts/#{Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")}-#{slug}.textile"

File.open(path, "w") do |f|
  f.write "---\n"
  f.write "title: #{title}\n"
  f.write "layout: post\n"
  f.write "---\n\n"
end

puts "=> #{path}"
`gvim #{path}`