My personal website and blog, baked with Awestruct and published at http://graphitefriction.com.
For instructions on how to install Awestruct and its dependencies, refer to the section Install Awestruct below.
To preview the site locally, simply run the default rake build task:
rake
The default rake build task is preview, so you’re effectively typing:
rake preview
The preview task is just a short way of invoking Awestruct in development mode directly:
awestruct -d
Now visit http://localhost:4242 to preview the site.
To rebuild the site from a clean state, pass the --force flag to the preview task:
rake preview[--force]
You can pass any flag through to Awestruct using the syntax in the previous command.
Add new files (such as a new blog entry or image):
git add blog/YYYY-MM-DD-blog-title.textile
or all new files present in a directory (it only affects new files, skips files already committed)
git add blog/
Commit all files marked to be committed, including new files that were just added:
git commit -m 'your message here'
Commit all files that have changed, even if not marked to be committed:
git commit -a -m 'your message here'
Make sure there are no files that are "untracked" or "modified":
git status
You should see:
nothing to commit (working directory clean)
Now you are ready to deploy.
The following commands will push changes (git push), clean build the site (--force -g) using the production profile (-P production), then deploy it to github pages (--deploy):
git push awestruct -P production --force -g --deploy
Or simply run the prepared rake build task (to deploy locally):
rake deploy
Or just push and let Travis CI do the work of deploying the site:
rake push
If you want to push without triggering a publish, add the following to the commit message:
[ci skip]
Here’s the source feed containing all the entries:
The feed for Planet Fedora is first filtered based on the tag fedora using feedrinse:
It’s then plugged into feedburner to track visits and served up to Planet Fedora:
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These instructions apply to performing a user install of Awestruct on Fedora |
Awestruct is a RubyGem, available in the main repository. I recommend installing it locally (rather than systemwide). Though I’m a huge fan of JRuby, the startup time impedes rapid (and comfortable) development, so I recommend using C Ruby for this purpose.
First, make sure that you have Ruby and RubyGems installed:
sudo yum install ruby rubygems
You also need some development packages to install gems that use native extensions:
sudo yum install ruby-devel libxml2 libxslt gcc-c++
Next, configure RubyGems to install gems in your home directory when using the command gem.
cat > ~/.gemrc << CONTENT gemhome: $HOME/.gem/ruby/system gempath: - /usr/share/gems install: --no-rdoc --no-ri update: --no-rdoc --no-ri CONTENT
You’ll need to run an additional set of commands to addresses an inconsistency in how Ruby sets the GEM PATH:
mkdir -p ~/.gem/ruby/system cd ~/.gem/ruby ln -s system $(ruby -e "puts RbConfig::CONFIG['ruby_version']" cd ..
Finally, make sure that the local gem bin directory is on your PATH:
export PATH="$HOME/.gem/ruby/system/bin:$PATH"
At this point, you could install Awestruct directly, but since the site build has some additional dependencies, it’s best to let bundler handle the installation. Bundler will also ensure that you are using the correct versions of each gem when you run Awestruct.
We’ll need to get the bundler gem and the integration with RubyGems, then initialize the integration:
gem install bundler rubygems-bundler GEM_HOME=~/.gem/ruby/system gem regenerate_binstubs
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Now, inside the website project directory (i.e., this directory), use bundler to install the gems specified in Gemfile, including Awestruct:
GEM_HOME=~/.gem/ruby/system bundle install
You’re now Awestruct!