A next-generation, progressive site generator & fullstack framework, powered by Ruby.

Built upon venerated open source technologies such as Ruby, Puma, and Roda — and grown on the fertile soil of Rails & Jekyll — Bridgetown puts power back in the hands of individuals to create extraordinary things.

While your competitors are wrestling with complicated build tools, limited programming idioms, and mountains of boilerplate, you’re out changing the world.

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Version 1.3.1 released Aug 29, 2023.
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Listen to what they’re saying about Bridgetown:

• Bridgetown is so cool. It’s the most fun I’ve had outside of Rails in a long time.

  @_williamkennedy

• Coherent, thought through, well-structured, yet powerful and efficient SSG. This is GREAT!

  @noam__shemesh

• With Rails 7, Hotwire, Stimulus, Strada, Bridgetown, Render, and things like this, I believe Ruby is about to have a renaissance.

  @aviflombaum

• Within a very short period of time I went from a blank VSCode editor to fully designed and deployed website using Bridgetown! 👏

  @rabbigreenberg

• I made my Bridgetown site ‘come alive’ with automatic redeploys where the site’s content is updated via an API. In lieu of a Frankenstein emoji… BRRAAAAAINS!! 🧟🧟🧟

  @fpsvogel

• If you need a static site generator and like Ruby, go for
  Bridgetown. I’m using it on 3 projects right now and it’s awesome.

  @stevediaconou

• I wish more new tools were doing this well out of the box. Congrats, and good luck!

  @slightlylate

• Every time I turn around — something new from Bridgetown.

  @jeffreyguenther

• I just started my first project using Bridgetown today and I’m already loving it!

  @theluctus

• Bridgetown rules.

  @middlemanapp

Super-dee-dooper features galore.

Bridgetown’s philosophy is if we take the time to build what you’ll actually need, you won’t have to. Without having to hunt for any additional add-ons or extra recipes, Bridgetown gives you right out of the box from day one:

• Static Site Generator

  All of the features you’ve grown to love from the world of static site generation. Front Matter. Markdown. Easy permalinks. File-based content deployment with Git history and atomic builds. Data transformation pipelines. Paginated archives. It’s all here and ready to roll.

  
  Read the Docs
  
  

• Powerful Content Engine

  Set up collections for whatever types of content you need. Define taxonomies. Create relationships between different pieces of content. And when y