I recently converted my blog over to Jekyll, mainly to not have MySQL running. One thing I did though was set up git deployment. I mostly followed the Jekyll guide, but I different when setting up the jekyll gem.
The starting post-receive from Jekyll Deployment Guide.
hooks/post-receive (original)
GIT_REPO=$HOME/myrepo.git
TMP_GIT_CLONE=$HOME/tmp/myrepo
PUBLIC_WWW=/var/www/myrepo
git clone $GIT_REPO $TMP_GIT_CLONE
jekyll --no-auto $TMP_GIT_CLONE $PUBLIC_WWW
rm -Rf $TMP_GIT_CLONE
exit
I did bundler install --deployment so that it would be in the local directory. The problem with this is that jekyll then picks up the test posts in the gem as your posts. Now I had a ton of bad posts on my blog. (You may have noticed them in the feed.)
I also set it up so that it doesn’t blow away the repo (and the gems) every time I push up a new post.
hooks/post-receive (final)
GIT_REPO=$HOME/repos/blog.oestrich.org
TMP_GIT_CLONE=$HOME/tmp/blog.oestrich.org
PUBLIC_WWW=$HOME/vhosts/blog.oestrich.org
unset GIT_DIR
if [ -d $TMP_GIT_CLONE ]; then
cd $TMP_GIT_CLONE
git pull origin master
else
git clone $GIT_REPO $TMP_GIT_CLONE
cd $TMP_GIT_CLONE
fi
bundle install --deployment
# Remove the sample jekyll site from the test suite
rm -rf $TMP_GIT_CLONE/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/jekyll-0.11.2/test/source
bundle exec jekyll --no-auto $TMP_GIT_CLONE $PUBLIC_WWW
exit
