BinaryAge Site

This is an umbrella project to organize sites under *.binaryage.com.

• local development server
• maintenance utilities
• deploying utilities

The idea

The idea is to have one repo with all subdomains as separate repositories, each tracked as an individual git submodule. Individual sites have usually a dependency on shared - again tracked as a git submodule. This should give us tools to reconstruct the whole site to any point in history while having granular control of commit rights to individual subdomains of the site. Transparency via GitHub is a bonus.

.
├── www
│   ├── shared
│   ├── index.md
|   ...
├── totalfinder-web
│   ├── shared
│   ├── index.md
|   ...
├── totalspaces-web
│   ├── shared
│   ├── index.md
|   ...
├── blog
...

Shared stuff

Files which should be shared by all sites should go into shared repo.

• layouts - jekyll layout files, these won't be present in the generated site
• includes - various includes for layout files, these won't be present in the generated site
• root - these will be generated and then moved to the root level of the site, useful for generating the same page for all sites, like 404.html
• img - shared images
• css - shared css files, we use stylus for preprocessing and concatenation
• js - shared javascript/coffeescript files, we have defined .list file for concatenation
• ...

Prerequisities

• nginx
• ruby, rake, rubygems
• node.js, yarn

Bootstrap local development

git clone [email protected]:binaryage/site.git
cd site
rake init

The init task does several things:

• inits and updates all git submodules
• pins all submodules to latest web branch tips

Launch development server

• make sure you have your /etc/hosts properly configured, see rake hosts

To run the full dev server:

in one terminal session run nginx proxy:

rake proxy

in another terminal session run the jekyll debug server:

rake serve what=www,totalspaces,blog

Note that live reloading and css watching is enabled by default. Using browser-sync.

Deployment

Just make changes in some sub-site repo and push your changes into its web branch.

We have setup hookgun as post-recieve hook which will build the sub-site and then will push baked static site files back into its gh-pages branch. GitHub Pages will do the deployment automatically. It will also move pointer of submodule here in the site repo.

Don't forget to push shared submodule first if you have modified some shared stuff.

Update from remote

If you want to get incrementally to remote state without doing rake init, you may reset your repo to remote state via rake reset (will destroy your local changes!!!).

Alternatively you may always use your git-fu to non-destructively pull from remotes (git submodule foreach is your friend).