ZSH and Octopress

Octopress has a number of handy rake tasks, which can be easily found with rake -T. My favorite is rake new_post, which bootstraps a Markdown file (much like the one I am currently writing) with the metadata needed to make it click.

If you’re a ZSH user, you might have noticed that titling the post (rake new_post['My Title Here']) doesn’t want to work. This is because ZSH performs globbing on commands, causing this particular one to choke. There’s a couple solutions:

• Simply do rake new_post. The command will ask for a follow-up with the title, which is easy enough.
• Run noglob rake ... each time, or alias it as rake="noglob rake" in your .zshrc.

I prefer the first, as I’m not too fond of aliasing over a command I use so often. Some additional options can be found on the appropriate Octopress issue on Github

Edit: I have stopped using Octopress in favor of Jekyll. This post is kept for posterity.