So, you have an awesome website built with Jekyll, but you need an easy way to publish it. For those unaware, Jekyll is a static site generator written in Ruby. With that in mind let’s talk about a little utility called Rake. It’s a Make-like program implemented in Ruby. This means you can create a Rakefile that contains a set of build rules. Simply put, it’s a file that you write some tasks in. The main task we want to achieve is publishing our site from a local machine to a server. Read More →
Tag Archives : Shell August 2014
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A CaveMan WordPress Workflow
In the continuing efforts to share workflows of other developers(Windows/Ubuntu, Tooling & Workflow) I’m happy to introduce Welling Guzman. Welling was passionate about sharing a portion of his workflow with the internets regarding WordPress. I’ll let Welling take it from here. Read More →
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I Don’t Git Case Sensitivity
Git is great! Even though it’s totally (hashtag) awesome sauce, you can encounter the occasional strangeness from time to time. My encounter deals with case sensitivity with both file names and also directory names. Read More →
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The GUI vs. The CLI: Beyond the GUI for file transfers and directory syncing
I’ve always been on the fence when it comes to using a gui over the cli to transfer/update files on a remote server. For the majority of my work I use Fetch when I need to transfer or grab single files and sometimes I will even go as far as mirroring with Fetch to sync entire projects. There are better ways for sure, but I really wanted to see what else is out there and the benefits of each method/tool available (ones that don’t use a gui at all!). I decided to take to the tweeters in hopes that other developers would provide me with some feedback/opinions. Read More →
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Keeping your front-end tool chain up-to-date : Node, NPM and Ruby
WARNING! I use a Mac so these comments and examples are from the point of view of a Mac owner.
Setting up an environment with the required dependencies can be a chore to be blunt. Here’s a rundown of the best approaches to keep these dependencies in place once they’re installed. This is not an article about installation, but what to do once they are installed and maybe a few hot items/points of interest to enhance your experience. As a FRED these days you’ll certainly run into a project that may have node or may use Ruby and knowing how to operate in these environments plus keep them updated can be a huge advantage to you or your team members. Read More →
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Which Git? How to Keep Git Up To Date on Mac
As we all know the majority of the Web development community uses Git. The funny part to the whole story is the fact that most developers don’t even know what version they’re using. Read More →