Jekyll: ChicagoRuby Hack Night

Jekyll is a static HTML page generator written in Ruby. It's an ideal tool for those cases where a CMS is too heavy, but writing a bunch of HTML is too tedious. These slides were used during the Jekyll intro at the ChicagoRuby Hack Night on Wed, Nov 11, 2015.

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1. ChicagoRuby: Hack Night
 Wed, Nov 11, 2015 Chicago, IL, USA @RayHightower
2. What Why How ?
3. 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.
4. Responsive Design
5. $ gem install jekyll $ jekyll new mysite 
 $ cd mysite $ jekyll serve -w
6. Demo Time
8. Future Stuff Beyond tonight or more advanced.
9. GitHub Pages + Jekyll
10. $ 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
11. $ 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?
13. Custom domain in action.
14. Type of Page Organization http://rayhightower.github.io http://rayhightower.com Project http://rayhightower.github.io/troop534 http://troop534.org Branch master gh-pages ==> ==>
15. Thanks! @RayHightower