Middleman has come a long ways and so have my habits. My blog is now running a stock version of the latest Middleman App.
I wanted to share this very simple rake task for deploying to Github User Pages.
Add Rake to Gemfile
gem "rake"
and remember to
bundle install --path=vendor
Deploy Rake Task
desc "Deploy"
task :deploy do
puts 'do build'
# build folder
system "rm -rf build"
system "mkdir build"
# git
Dir.chdir("build") do
system "git init ."
system "git remote add origin git@github.com:YOUR_ACCOUNT/YOUR_REPO.git"
system "git checkout --orphan gh-pages"
end
# do build
system "bundle exec middleman build"
# push build
Dir.chdir("build") do
system "git add -A"
system "git commit -m build"
system "git push -uf origin gh-pages"
end
end
NOTE: this is for a project page; if this is a user page you need to put your code in a source branch and have this publish into master.
Try it out
bundle exec rake deploy
Note the greatness * it builds static assets into gh-pages branch * does a force push so your repo doesn't continually get bigger
Happy blogging!