Creating a Jekyll App on Heroku Cedar (from GitHub)

Setup Jekyll

The first thing you have to do is install the jekyll gem.

gem install jekyll

git clone git@github.com:markpundsack/jekyll-heroku.git
cd jekyll-heroku

jekyll --server --auto

Open your browser and go to http://localhost:4000.

You should see "Hello World".

Install the Heroku gem

gem install heroku

Create a Heroku app

heroku create --stack cedar

Deploy!

git push heroku master

Test it:

heroku open

The first thing you have to do is install the jekyll gem.

gem install jekyll

Create the app directory

mkdir jekyll-app

and create the following files:

cd jekyll-app
touch _config.yml
touch index.html
mkdir _posts
mkdir _layouts
touch _layouts/default.html

Let's create a Layout. Open _layouts/default.html and add:

<html>
<body>
  {{ content }}
</body>
</html>

Now we need an index page. Open index.html and add:

---
layout: default
title: Jekyll Example Site
---

<h1>Hello World</h1>

Let's test it locally:

jekyll --server --auto

Open your browser and go to http://localhost:4000

You should see "Hello World"

First, install the Heroku gem

gem install heroku

Create a Gemfile and add:

source :rubygems

gem 'RedCloth'
gem 'jekyll'

Create the Gemfile.lock

bundle install

Create a Procfile

echo "web:	jekyll --server $PORT" > Procfile

Exclude all of those files

echo "exclude:  [ Gemfile, Gemfile.lock, Procfile, vendor]" >> _config.yml

Since Cedar will run Jekyll and generate the _site files automatically, they don't need to be check into git

echo _site >> .gitignore

Create a git repo and commit

git init .
git add .
git commit

Create a Heroku app

heroku create --stack cedar

Deploy!

git push heroku master

Test it:

heroku open