ChicagoRuby: North Shore
Saturday, January 2, 2016
Northbrook, IL, USA
@RayHightower
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What
Why
How
?
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CMS
On each page request:
1. Pull page content
from database.
2. Generate new
HTML page.
Static
No database. Generate
all HTML pages before
we deploy.
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Responsive Design
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$ gem install jekyll
$ jekyll new mysite
$ cd mysite
$ jekyll serve -w
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Demo Time
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GitHub
Pages
+
Jekyll
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$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m ‘ready to push this site to github’
$ git checkout -b gh-pages
$ git remote add origin git@github.com:username/mysite.git
$ git push -u origin gh-pages
Browser (10-30 min): http://username.github.io/mysite
Hosting at GitHub
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$ git checkout gh-pages
$ touch CNAME
$ echo “mycooldomainname.com” > CNAME
Configure your DNS provider so that the CNAME record points
to http://github.io/mysite
Browser (10-30 min): http://username.github.io/mysite
Custom Domain Name?
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Custom
domain
in action.
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Type of Page
Organization
http://rayhightower.github.io
http://rayhightower.com
Project
http://rayhightower.github.io/troop534
http://troop534.org
Branch
master
gh-pages
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