Rails-ey Services with Middleman and Cloudfront
Middleman is a static site generator, but with all the nice features of Rails.
You can extract out your static sites and single-page applications into Middleman apps, and get all the upsides of:
- Security: Nothing to hack
- Speed: static files are fast!
- Stability: No servers to go down
Without affecting developer productivity.
Relevant Links
- Example blog repo: See the source of a real, configured, working Middleman with blog
- router: Run your Middleman + Rails app under one domain with SSL on your development machine
- Getting started with CloudFront
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Hi, I'm Nathaniel Jones. You can find me on Twitter @thenthj.
I first gave this talk on February 23rd, 2016 at Austin on Rails.