This is the source of the cybersecure blog.

• This repositry has two branches: master & gh-pages

  • master - Make all the changes here, this should reflect any drafts or changes to style we need to make.
  • gh-pages - This is the published branch of the repo. Anything that is pushed to this branch on github will be published to the live site.

• All the posts are located under _posts folder. Each individual file is a post in itself.

  • Post file needs the following parts

      ---
      layout: post
      title: title of the post
      ---
      p(meta). date of the publication - place of the publication ( this part is optional )
    

  • Each post file is named in the following pattern: year-month-date-title-of-the-post.textile
  • All the content is written in textile markup. Please read about it before writing a post.

• All the changes can be seen live on the development machine by following this procedure.

  • Make the changes and start the server by running foreman start
  • Visit the webpage on port 4000 on the local machine.

Follow these steps to publish a new post:

• Checkout branch master : git checkout master
• Make a copy of one of the previous posts.
• Change the name in the post pattern : year-month-date-title-of-the-post.textile
• Change the title and the meta information for the post.
• Write the post in textile markup and save the file.
• Preview the changes by running the dev server foreman start and visiting http://storage1:4000.
• Add the new file to git. git add .
• Commit the changes to git git commit
• Push the changes to github git push origin master
• Checkout branch gh-pages : git checkout gh-pages
• Merge the master branch into the gh-pages branch git merge master
• Push the changes to github git push origin gh-pages