BigBinary Blog
We write about Ruby on Rails, React.js, React Native, remote work, open source, engineering and design.
jekyll is an excellent tool for creating static pages and blogs. Our BigBinary blog is based on jekyll. Deploying our blog to heroku took longer than I had expected. I am outlining what I did to deploy BigBinary blog to heroku.
Open _config.yml
and add following line at the very bottom.
exclude: ['vendor']
Create a new file called Procfile
at the root of the project with following content.
web: bundle exec jekyll build && bundle exec thin start -p\$PORT -V
console: echo console
rake: echo rake
Add Gemfile
at the root of the project.
source 'https://rubygems.org'
gem 'jekyll', '2.4.0'
gem 'rake'
gem 'foreman'
gem 'thin'
gem 'rack-contrib'
Add config.ru
at the root of the project with following content.
require 'rack/contrib/try_static'
use Rack::TryStatic,
:root => "\_site",
:urls => %w[/],
:try => ['.html', 'index.html', '/index.html']
run lambda { |env|
return [404, {'Content-Type' => 'text/html'}, ['Not Found']]
}
Test locally by executing bundle exec jekyll serve
.
Now run bundle install and add the Gemfile.lock to the repository and push the repository to heroku.