As some of you may know, there's been a fair amount of activity on the
upcoming release of StaticMatic2:

* Build tracking
The build tracking is now working, so only the templates you change
will be built.  I've changed the name of the build directory from
'site' to 'build' now - seems to make more sense!

* Creator
When the gem is ready for release, you'll be able to create a site
easily by running 'staticmatic my_site'.  This will set you up all the
default files including rake & config files

* Configuration
Thomas Reynolds added some merb-style configuration for us which is
working out pretty well.

Thomas was also able to sort out various fixes to bring us up-to-date
with ActionPack 2.1 & the latest Haml.

Ryan Mulligan has been working on some new ideas for improving the
previewer which are looking cool.

Other than that, I added built-in support for Markdown templates (very
easy with the new framework!) which might help out a bit the recent
discussions about using StaticMatic as a blog engine (http://
groups.google.co.uk/group/staticmatic/browse_thread/thread/
13df3621ecc07a48?hl=en).  It's great to be able to use Haml for the
main layout markup, but switch to Markdown for the actual page
content.  All you have to do is call your page filename.html.markdown
and StaticMatic will do the rest.

I've also been toying around with a few other ideas myself in this
area which I'm hoping to write up soon.

As for a release date, I feel like we're nearly there with the
codebase.  We've been using the new version for a while and it's
pretty stable.  We've got a new website in the pipeline for the new
release so watch this space!

Cheers,

Steve