This is the source code for jessebuchanan.ca. It is powered by Octopress 2 and deployed on Amazon S3 / CloudFront using the s3_website gem.

git clone --recursive [email protected]:jbinto/blog.git
cd blog
bundle

Set the AWS credentials. NOTE: Use a restricted IAM role for this!

cp set_aws_credentials.sh.example set_aws_credentials.sh
vi set_aws_credentials.sh
source set_aws_credentials.sh

See http://octopress.org/docs/updating/

git remote add upstream [email protected]:imathis/octopress.git
git fetch upsream
git merge upstream/master
rake update_source
rake update_style

Resolve all the merge conflicts and commit.

bundle exec rake new_post["Lorem ipsum"]
subl source/posts

bundle exec rake generate

Using pow & powder:

powder link
bundle exec rake watch		# starts Compass to monitor for changes
open http://blog.dev

Without pow:

bundle exec rake preview
open http://localhost:5000

Deployment is handled via s3_website.

source set_aws_credentials.sh
s3_website push

I have added my own source/index.html, which is a bit of a hack to make the root of the site separate from the Octopress blog.

Note that rake update_source will overwrite source/index.html.

I keep a backup in index.html.jb. After rebuilding the source (e.g. new theme, Octopress upgrade), run:

cp source/index.html.jb source/index.html

The theme .themes/boldandblue is brought in as a git submodule, so I can track it. This brings all of the problems of submodules with it, so be warned.

Note: s3_website requires a JDK as of July 2014, as it is now partially written in Scala.

If you're on OS X and have Homebrew and Cask installed, this is as easy as:

brew cask install java