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+# Revision history for heckle
+
+## 0.1.0.0  -- YYYY-mm-dd
+
+* First version. Released on an unsuspecting world.
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diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
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+import Distribution.Simple
+main = defaultMain
diff --git a/heckle.cabal b/heckle.cabal
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+-- Initial heckle.cabal generated by cabal init.  For further 
+-- documentation, see http://haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/
+
+name:                heckle
+version:             0.1.0.0
+synopsis:            Jekyll in Haskell
+description:         Lightweight static site compiler for markdown posts
+license:             Apache-2.0
+license-file:        LICENSE
+author:              Rushi Shah
+
+maintainer:          2016rshah@gmail.com
+
+-- copyright:           
+category:            Web
+build-type:          Simple
+extra-source-files:  ChangeLog.md
+cabal-version:       >=1.10
+
+executable heckle
+  main-is:             Main.hs
+  other-modules:       Heckle
+  -- other-extensions:    
+  build-depends:       base <=4.8.0
+                     , blaze-html >= 0.8.1.1
+                     , containers >= 0.5.5.1
+                     , directory >=1.2 && <1.3
+                     , pandoc >= 1.17.0.3
+                     , pandoc-types >= 1.16.1
+                     , process >= 1.2.0.0
+                     , split >=0.2 && <0.3
+                     , tagsoup >= 0.13.10
+  hs-source-dirs:      src
+  default-language:    Haskell2010
+  
+source-repository head
+  type:     git
+  location: https://github.com/2016rshah/heckle.git
diff --git a/src/Heckle.hs b/src/Heckle.hs
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+{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE TypeSynonymInstances #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances #-}
+
+module Heckle where
+
+--Blaze HTML
+import Text.Blaze.Html5 as H hiding (main, map)
+import Text.Blaze.Html5.Attributes as A
+import Text.Blaze.Html.Renderer.Pretty
+
+--Pandoc
+import Text.Pandoc.Options
+import Text.Pandoc.Readers.Markdown
+import Text.Pandoc.Definition
+import Text.Pandoc.Writers.HTML
+
+--TagSoup
+import Text.HTML.TagSoup
+
+--Other
+import Data.List.Split
+import Control.Applicative
+import Data.Map.Lazy as Map (lookup)
+import Control.Monad
+
+data Post = Post {
+  filename :: String
+  , pd :: Pandoc
+  , postTitle :: String
+  , postDate :: String
+  }
+          deriving (Eq, Show)
+
+getMD :: FilePath -> Either String String
+getMD s = case splitOn "." s of
+            [fn, "md"] -> Right fn
+            _ -> Left "Not a PDF file"
+
+getMeta :: (Meta -> [Inline]) -> Pandoc -> Either String String
+getMeta f (Pandoc m _) = case f m of
+  [] -> Left "Couldn't find it"
+  ((Str s):xs) -> Right s
+  (_:xs) -> Left "Not a string??"
+
+createPost :: Show a => String -> Either a Pandoc -> Either String Post
+createPost _ (Left e) = Left (show e)
+createPost fn (Right pd) = 
+	Post <$> pure fn <*> pure pd <*> getMeta docTitle pd <*> getMeta docDate pd
+
+filenameToPost :: String -> IO (Either String Post)
+filenameToPost fn = do
+	native <- fmap (readMarkdown def) (readFile ("posts/" ++ fn ++ ".md"))
+	return (createPost fn native)
+        
+writeHTML :: Post -> IO ()
+writeHTML p = do
+	let html = writeHtmlString def (pd p)
+	writeFile ("posts/" ++ (filename p) ++ ".html") html 
+
+postsToHtml :: [Post] -> Html
+postsToHtml xs = do
+  ul ! A.id "blog-posts" $
+    forM_ xs h
+  where
+    h s = li ! class_ "blog-post" $ do
+            a ! class_ "post-link" ! href (stringValue ("posts/"++filename s++".html")) $ toHtml (postTitle s)
+            H.div ! class_ "post-date" $ toHtml (postDate s)
+
+injectPosts :: String -> Html -> Either String String 
+injectPosts layout ul = case splitFile of
+                        [beginning, end] -> Right (renderTags (beginning ++ parseTags (show ul) ++ end))
+                        _ ->  Left "Broken layout file"
+  where
+    splitFile = splitOn [(TagOpen "ul" [("id","blog-posts")]), (TagClose "ul")] (parseTags layout)
+
+instance Show Html where
+  show = renderHtml
diff --git a/src/Main.hs b/src/Main.hs
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+module Main where
+
+import System.Directory 
+import Data.Either
+import Data.List
+import System.Environment (getArgs)
+import System.Process (readProcess)
+import Heckle
+
+main = do
+  args <- getArgs
+  case args of
+    ["build"] -> do
+      putStrLn "Building"
+      ----get all md files from directory
+      putStrLn "Getting directory contents"
+      fileNames <- fmap (rights . map getMD) (getDirectoryContents "posts")
+
+      --turn the list of files into a list of posts
+      putStrLn "Turning directory contents into posts"
+      postsToBeCreated <- (mapM filenameToPost fileNames)
+      --print postsToBeCreated
+      --postsToBeCreated <- (mapM fileNameToPost fileNames)
+      let posts = (reverse . rights) postsToBeCreated -- need to sort here when you add in support for dates
+      let brokenPosts = lefts postsToBeCreated
+      if length (brokenPosts) > 1 
+        then print brokenPosts
+        else putStrLn "All posts are well formed"
+      --print posts
+
+      --convert posts to their html
+      mapM_ writeHTML posts
+
+      --generate a ul from the list of posts
+      putStrLn "Turning posts into an HTML element"
+      let generatedHtml = postsToHtml posts
+      print generatedHtml
+
+      --read the layout file
+      putStrLn "Reading the layout file"
+      layoutFile <- readFile "index.html.hkl"
+
+      --put the ul into the layout file
+      putStrLn "Inserting HTML element into layout file"
+      let injectedOutput = layoutFile `injectPosts` generatedHtml
+      case injectedOutput of
+        (Left e) -> putStrLn e
+        (Right s) -> do
+          --put the results into the index.html file
+          putStrLn "Writing resulting file into index.html"
+          writeFile "index.html" s
+          putStrLn "Success building!"
+      
+    _ -> print "That's not a valid command"
+
