I significantly underestimated how difficult going from my #SQL to static websites generated with that SQL data would be. It's overkill, but I'm wondering if I should get to work on learning #Rails to drop the SQL into that and have everything dynamically setup. >_< I'll move to Rails eventually anyway, but ugh.
What I've considered instead for the first run at this thing, to prove whether I should proceed with developing it at all, is pulling the SQL into #Ruby via a gem, then figuring out how to output the queried rows in a YAML format and/or CSV format for use with #Jekyll.
I'm having a hard time finding any resources online about doing something like this (and I imagine that there's a good reason for that), so if I do it and write it up as a blog post, it'll give me some cred. #webdev #programming