proof of concept for getting latests posts from Medium

Gemfile

@@ -9,4 +9,5 @@ end
 
 group :jekyll_plugins do
     gem 'hash-joiner'
+    gem 'simple-rss'
 end

_src/_assets/styles/_sections.scss

@@ -90,3 +90,4 @@
 @import '_sections/section-cta-community';
 @import '_sections/section-cta-enterprise';
 @import '_sections/section-partners';
+@import '_sections/section-blog';

_src/_assets/styles/_sections/_section-blog.scss

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+.section--blog {
+
+}
+
+.article {
+
+}
+
+.article__title {
+    @extend .h6;
+}

_src/_assets/styles/bigchain/_mixins/_backgrounds.scss

@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
     p {
         color: $brand-main-gray;
     }
+
+    h1, h2, h3, h4 {
+        color: $brand-main-blue;
+    }
 }
 
 .background--gray {

_src/_includes/sections/section-blog.html

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<section class="section section--blog background--light">
+    <div class="row row--wide">
+        <header class="section-header">
+            <h1 class="section-title">Hot off the blog</h1>
+        </header>
+
+        <div class="grid grid--full grid-medium--fit grid--gutters">
+            {% for article in site.blog | limit: 3 %}
+                <div class="grid__col">
+                    <a class="article article--{{ article.title | downcase | truncatewords: 3, '' | replace: ' ', '-' }}" href="{{ article.link }}">
+
+                        <!-- <img src="{{ article.image }}" alt="{{ article.title }}"> -->
+
+                        <h1 class="article__title">
+                            {{ article.title }}
+                        </h1>
+                        <p>{{ article.description }}</p>
+                    </a>
+                </div>
+            {% endfor %}
+        </div>
+
+    </div>
+</section>

_src/_plugins/blog.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# http://stackoverflow.com/a/27850727/733677
+
+require 'open-uri'
+require 'rss'
+require 'simple-rss'
+
+module Jekyll
+
+    # Runs during jekyll build
+    class RssFeedCollector < Generator
+       safe true
+       priority :high
+       def generate(site)
+
+          rss_items = SimpleRSS.parse open('https://blog.bigchaindb.com/feed/')
+
+          # Create a new on-the-fly Jekyll collection called "blog"
+          jekyll_items = Jekyll::Collection.new(site, 'blog')
+          site.collections['blog'] = jekyll_items
+
+          # Add fake virtual documents to the collection
+          rss_items.items.each do |item|
+             title = item.title
+             description = item.description
+             link = item.link
+             image = item.media_content_url
+             path = "_rss/" + title.to_s.gsub(':','_') + ".md"
+             path = site.in_source_dir(path)
+             doc = Jekyll::Document.new(path, site: site, collection: jekyll_items)
+             doc.data['title'] = title
+             doc.data['description'] = description
+             doc.data['link'] = link
+             doc.data['image'] = image
+             jekyll_items.docs << doc
+          end
+
+       end
+    end
+
+end

_src/index.html

@@ -59,4 +59,6 @@ redirect_from:
 
 {% include sections/section-cta-features.html %}
 
+{% include sections/section-blog.html %}
+
 {% include ipdb.html %}