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Middleman

Ruby static site generator with modern tooling

Blogging Platforms ★ 7.1k stars Medium setup MIT

Middleman is a static site generator using all the shortcuts and tools in modern web development, including templating, asset pipelines, and helpers. Its blogging extension turns it into a full static blog engine.

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Key features

  • Asset pipeline
  • Blogging extension
  • Helpers and partials
  • Static output

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Mature project with 7.1k GitHub stars
  • Written in Ruby
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM

Is Middleman secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Middleman's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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