jekyll-ghdeploy

jekyll-ghdeploy

Jekyll GhDeploy is meant to take away the pain of building and pushing your Jekyll site to Github while keeping it version controlled.

Jekyll GhDeploy

If you are using non-whitelisted plugins for your Jekyll site then you probably can't host on Github Pages. Jekyll GhDeploy is meant to take away the pain of building and pushing your Jekyll site to Github while keeping it version controlled.

Installation

Add these lines to your site's Gemfile:

group :jekyll_plugins do
   gem "jekyll-ghdeploy"
end

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install jekyll-ghdeploy

Usage

Specify your repository inside of your configuration file with username being your Github username and repository being your repository's name.

repository: username/repository

Execute the command by typing bundle exec jekyll ghdeploy

$ bundle exec jekyll ghdeploy

You can alternatively specify your repository while executing the command.

$ bundle exec jekyll ghdeploy username/repository

Options

Option Description
-d or --docs Built site is stored inside of docs directory. Note that this option commits any staged files and pushes to master.
-m or --message Custom commit message

Contributing

If you have found a bug or would like to ask a question please open an issue. Pull requests are welcome.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.