Category templates in Jekyll

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On my site, there will be two types of posts: blog and portfolio. I want to have a page for each of these categories, displaying only posts from that category.

What is the best way to achieve this in Jekyll? I've done some homework but I'm struggling to find a good answer.

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If you put the post into folder posts and portfolio, jekyll will naturally defined two categories

root
 |-- posts
 |     `-- _posts
 |          |-- 2012-01-12-post.textile
 |          `-- 2012-03-22-post.textile
 `-- portfolio
      `-- _posts
            |-- 2011-04-05-post.textile
            `-- 2012-02-02-post.textile

Then you can have a generator that will create the category page, you may then take inspiration from this post: http://www.justkez.com/generating-a-tag-cloud-in-jekyll/ except that instead of generating the tag page, you generate the category page.

EDIT

There is also this plugins generate_category.rb that can help you: http://recursive-design.com/projects/jekyll-plugins/