mikekauffman / gschool-blog

A blog utilizing Middleman, Middleman Blog, Foundation, "Blades of Steel" Theme, and deployable to Heroku

gSchool Blog

1. Make sure Ruby 2.0 is installed

   rvm install ruby-2.0.0-p451
   

2. Fork the repository to your own account and then clone it to your machine:

   $ git clone [e-mail]:YOURNAME/gschool-blog.git
   

3. Use bundler to install all of the dependencies

   $ cd gschool-blog
   $ bundle install
   

4. Run the Middleman Blog

   $ middleman
   

5. Open the blog in your browser to make sure it works. You can do this from a new terminal tab with:

   $ open http://localhost:4567
   

6. Check out the existing articles for an example of how to write a blog post. Make note that you can add a tag to the article using the 'tag' setting at the top of an article. See http://middlemanapp.com/basics/blogging/#toc_1 for more information about adding dates and tags to each article.

7. Remove the existing articles

   $ git rm source/2012-01-01-example-article.html.markdown
   $ git rm source/2013-01-23-introduction.html.markdown
   $ git commit -m "Removed old articles"
   

8. Create your first article.

   $ middleman article "gSchool - Week 0"
   

9. Write an article with your recap/reflections of the first week.

10. Save the article

    $ git add source
    $ git commit -m "Wrote First Article"
    

11. Create the Heroku application and deploy your blog.

    $ heroku create
    $ git push heroku master
    

12. Push your changes back to Github for safe keeping

    $ git push origin master
    

13. (Optional) Rename the blog to something other than the default Heroku name. You can do this via the Heroku console after you log in.