Ruby Middleman Tailwind Starter Blog

A Middleman blog template configured with TailwindCSS, markdown parsing, code highlighting, a sitemap.xml and more. It perfect for lightweight blogging or a personal website. Ruby knowledge is helpful, but not necessary.

Features

• Middleman v4.5,
• TailwindCSS v3.4.3,
• Markdown support (via kramdown),
• Blogging support (via middleman-blog),
• Syntax highlighting support (via middleman-syntax),
• Live-reloading (via middleman-livereload) and bin/dev script,
• Automatic sitemap.xml generation,
• SEO-friendly automatic meta tags for title and description,
• Perfect 100/100 PageSpeed score (near perfect for mobile)
• Github Action for image compression (see compress_images.yml).

Visit the live template demo for a preview of how it looks (although of course, you can customize it yourself).

I've used Middleman for years to build my personal website, and this template is a consolidation of everything I've learned.

Getting started

Before you get started, make sure you've got Ruby installed. Currently, this template uses Ruby v3.3.0.

Clone this template, then install the required packages and start the server:

# install Ruby packages & tailwindcss
bundle
npm install

# start dev server
bin/dev

Deploying

This template is easy to deploy. Any static site host should work; I personally use Netlify and I've included the Netlify + Vercel "Deploy" buttons below.

Netlify
Vercel