Portion of a Middleman config.rb file relevant to getting middleman-blog working.

gistfile1.rb

set :markdown_engine, :kramdown
set :markdown, :fenced_code_blocks => true,
               :autolink => true, 
               :smartypants => true,
               :footnotes => true,
               :superscript => true

helpers do
  def javascript_path(file_path)
		asset_path(:js, file_path)
	end
end

class Middleman::Sitemap::Resource
	def first_paragraph
		nokogiri_doc = Nokogiri::HTML(self.body)
		
		return nokogiri_doc.css("p").first.to_s
	end
end

page "/blog/*", :layout => :blog_article

activate :blog do |blog|
  blog.prefix = "blog/"
  blog.sources = ":year-:month-:day-:title.html"
  blog.layout = "blog_article"

  blog.tag_template = "blog/tag.html"
  blog.calendar_template = "blog/calendar.html"

  blog.paginate = true
  blog.per_page = 10
end

# This line has to be after blog configuration:
activate :directory_indexes

activate :deploy do |deploy|
  # Deploy via SSH:
  deploy.method = :rsync
  deploy.user = "username"
  deploy.host = "server.host.com"
  deploy.path = "~/site/directory/"
  
  # Deploy via Git Pages:
  # deploy.method = :git
end