What is mgd ?¶ ↑
mgd stands for middleman-github-deploy and is a fork of jgd.
mgd will automatically build your Middleman blog and push it to your gh-pages branch (or any other branch of your choice).
Installation and Usage¶ ↑
It is assumed that your blog is in the home directory of your repo.
Install it first:
gem install mgd
Run it locally:
mgd
Now your site is deployed to gh-pages
branch of your repo. Done.
PS. You can also specify target branch, with is gh-pages
by default. Use --branch
command line option.
Ruby ad rubygems versions¶ ↑
Everything should work fine with ruby > 2.0.
There is a bug with rubygems (github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/1420), so if you're getting error like this:
$ mgd /Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.1/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/specification.rb:2158:in `method_missing': undefined method `this' for #<Gem::Specification:0x3fc9e849c75c trollop-2.1.2> (NoMethodError) from /Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.1/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/specification.rb:1057:in `find_active_stub_by_path' from /Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.1/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:64:in `require' from /Users/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1@gemset/gems/mgd-0.1.0/bin/mgd:4:in `<top (required)>' from /Users/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1@gemset/bin/mgd:23:in `load' from /Users/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1@gemset/bin/mgd:23:in `<main>' from /Users/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1@gemset/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `eval' from /Users/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1@gemset/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `<main>'
check what is your gem version, should be higher than 2.6.3:
$ gem --version
you can update it via:
$ gem update --system # you might need to be an administrator or root
Deploying with Travis¶ ↑
This is how you might configure your blog to be deployed automatically by travis-ci:
branches: only: - master env: global: - secure: ... install: - bundle script: mgd -u http://yourname:$PASSWORD@github.com/yourname/blog.git
The environment variable $PASSWORD
is set through env/global/secure
, as explained here.
Don't forget to add gem require 'mgd'
to your Gemfile
.
You can use SSH key instead. First, you should encrypt it:
$ travis encrypt-file id_rsa --add
Then, use the URI that starts with git@
:
script: - mgd -u git@github.com:yourname/blog.git
Read also this article.