Octopress - A blogging framework for hackers shown at Dolnośląska Ruby User Group #50

1. Octopress
A blogging framework for hackers
Wojciech Langiewicz @ DRUG #50

2. Plan
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Jekyll + Octopress
Installation
Your first post
Testing locally
Deploy to GitHub Pages

3. Jekyll
● Static site generator (written in ruby)
~ $ gem install jekyll
~ $ jekyll new my-awesome-site
~ $ cd my-awesome-site
~/my-awesome-site $ jekyll serve
# => Now browse to http://localhost:4000

4. Octopress
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Blog-aware static site generator
Written in Ruby for Jekyll
You write new posts as markdown files
Whole blog consists only of static files
Use plugins (eg: Disqus) for dynamic content
Requires Ruby 1.9.3
http://octopress.org/

5. Installing Octopress
git clone git://github.com/imathis/octopress.git octopress
cd octopress
gem install bundler
rbenv rehash
# If you use rbenv
bundle install
rake install
http://octopress.org/docs/setup/

6. First blog post
rake new_post["Hello From DRUG 50"]
#edit newly created file in source/_posts, use markdown
friendly editor
rake generate
rake preview
#go to: http://localhost:4000
http://octopress.org/docs/blogging/

7. Deploy to GitHub pages
#create github repo called: username.github.io
rake setup_github_pages
#enter: git@github.com:username/username.github.io.git
rake generate
rake preview #if needed
rake deploy #blog goes go master branch
#go to: http://username.github.io
#commit your changes to ‘sources’ branch
git add .
git commit -m 'commit message'
git push origin source
http://octopress.org/docs/deploying/github/

8. Summary
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Multiple deployment options
Insanely fast
Very extensible with plugins
Blog with your own editor, offline
Easy to migrate from Wordpress
Git and GitHub friendly
See it live: http://wlangiewicz.com