University of Montana-Missoula ACM Chapter

This site uses Jekyll to generate the static pages and Markdown to format them.

Prerequisites

The server simply runs static files, but on your local machine, you need:

• A Unix-like environment is assumed
• Ruby (only tested with 1.9.3, but 1.8.7 might work)
• Bundler (gem install bundler)

Once you have these tools:

1. Clone the project git clone [email protected]:umt-cs/umt-cs.github.com.git
2. Setup an ssh alias acm for the production server
3. From the project directory, download dependencies with bundler: bundle install
4. Launch a local copy: rake server
5. Visit the site at http://localhost:4000

Adding a New Post

# posts are in the format of YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md (markdown)
cp _posts/2011-12-09-last-meeting.md _posts/$(date "+%Y-%m-%d")-meeting.md
# open the file you just created in emacs, vim, etc.
$EDITOR !$
# once you're done, check the site in the server. If it's not already running:
rake server
# if you're satisfied with the formatting, commit:
git commit
# push
git push
# then deploy
rake deploy

Tips

• Write good commit messages
• Don't deploy to production without committing (and if you have time, edit the Rakefile to prevent this)
• Don't use Windows line-endings