--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/piecrust/commands/builtin/util.py	Sun Dec 22 08:00:24 2013 -0800
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+import os
+import os.path
+import codecs
+import logging
+import yaml
+from piecrust.app import CONFIG_PATH
+from piecrust.commands.base import ChefCommand
+
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class InitCommand(ChefCommand):
+    def __init__(self):
+        super(InitCommand, self).__init__()
+        self.name = 'init'
+        self.description = "Creates a new empty PieCrust website."
+        self.requires_website = False
+
+    def setupParser(self, parser):
+        parser.add_argument('destination',
+                help="The destination directory in which to create the website.")
+
+    def run(self, ctx):
+        destination = ctx.args.destination
+        if destination is None:
+            destination = os.getcwd()
+
+        if not os.path.isdir(destination):
+            os.makedirs(destination, 0755)
+        
+        config_path = os.path.join(destination, CONFIG_PATH)
+        if not os.path.isdir(os.path.dirname(config_path)):
+            os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(config_path))
+
+        config_text = yaml.dump({
+                'site': {
+                    'title': "My New Website",
+                    'description': "A website recently generated with PieCrust",
+                    'pretty_urls': True
+                    },
+                'smartypants': {
+                    'enable': True
+                    }
+                },
+                default_flow_style=False)
+        with codecs.open(config_path, 'w', 'utf-8') as fp:
+            fp.write(config_text)
+