LinuxSysadmin Blog

• Platform: Octopress/Jekyll
• URL: http://promet.github.com/

Installation

Dependencies

• Ruby 1.9.2
• Bundler

Quick Start

git clone git@github.com:promet/promet.github.com.git blog
cd blog
bundle install

Usage

• NEVER push to master
• Update the blog the same way you would update code
• Posts in are ./source/_posts
• Branch off master or work locally for longer running articles
• Always work off the source branch

Initial setup

Before you can publish your first changes you will have to bootstrap your environment. For this run:

rake bootstrap

Creating a new Post

0. Make sure you have the most recent posts

git pull

1. Use the built-in Rake task to generate the necessary files:

rake new_post["Title for my new blogpost"]

2. Open the generated markdown file
3. Add metadata to the YAML front matter ('author' should correspond to a key in _config.yml):

author: marius-ducea
categories: [Install, Setup, etc]
published: false # working draft, will not be published on generate

4. Write content
5. Generate & Preview

rake generate && rake preview # Watches and mounts a webserver at http://0.0.0.0:4000

Publishing

1. Add and push your changes to github

git add [your changes]
git push origin source

2. Deploy your changes

rake deploy

In a few moments, see your new article published on the blog!

Resources

• Octopress Docs
• Markdown Docs
• Jekyll Docs
• Liquid Docs