Statixite

Statixite is a management tool for static websites originally designed to work with Jekyll, but with the hopes to support other static site generators. This project rocks and uses MIT-LICENSE and we always welcome contributors. Statixite is also available as a service. The project is made so that developers can create there own management tool and setup custom deployment options, such as Github Pages, Amazon S3, or Rackspace Cloud Files

Demo

Requirements

• Ruby on Rails

• Postgres

• Imagemagick

Getting started

Statixite is a Rails::Engine packaged into a gem, so it can be added to any Rails project. To start with a fresh project, use the following command:

Create a new rails app

bash$ rails new myapp --database=postgresql

Add Statixite to your gemfile

gem 'statixite'

Run bundle and the Statixite generator to write the config file.

bash$ bundle install
bash$ rails generate statixite

This will generate the following file:

# config/initializers/statixite.rb
Statixite.setup do |config|
  # Used for Media Uploader
  # Valid options -
  # :file which commit media files directly to the associated site repo
  # :fog use Fog::Storage => A carrierwave.rb initializer file is required: see https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave 
  config.carrierwave_storage = :file

  # Where to deploy
  # Valid options -
  # :local stores sites at /path/to/app/sites/:site_name/build
  # :github pushes sites to your github account requires github creds and ssh access to account
  # :fog pushes sites using fog storage requires fog creds tested against S3 and Rackspace Cloud Files
  config.deploy_sites_to = :local

  # Deploying sites to github requires a personal access token to create repos
  # github creds => get personal token from github https://github.com/blog/1509-personal-api-tokens
  # config.github_user = username
  # config.github_token = ENV["GITHUB_TOKEN"]

  # fog creds AWS S3 example
  # config.fog_credentials = {
  #   :provider                 => 'AWS',
  #   :aws_access_key_id        => ENV["AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID"],
  #   :aws_secret_access_key    => ENV["AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"]
  # }

  # fog creds Rackspace Cloud Files example
  # config.fog_credentials {
  #   :provider                 => 'Rackspace',
  #   :rackspace_username  => ENV['RACKSPACE_USERNAME'],
  #   :rackspace_api_key   => ENV['RACKSPACE_API_KEY'],
  #   :rackspace_region    => :dfw
  # }
end

Mount the Engine

Make sure to mount the Statixite Engine in your routes file

# config/routes.rb
Rails.application.routes.draw do

  mount Statixite::Engine => "/statixite"

  # ...
end

Migrate the tables

bash$ rake db:migrate

You can now start your dev server and begin creating sites at [localhost:3000/statixite/sites]

Site Structure

- root
  |__ sites
      |__ :site_name # As defined when a site is created
          |__ clone # Main directory where changes are made
          |__ repo # Where changes are pushed which can be configured to be a remote repository
          |__ build # Similar to the _site folder built when a deployment is made
  |__ public
      |__ statixite # Statixite Namespace
          |__ previews
              |__ :site_name

Deployment Options

Local

Sites are built locally. In production you could use a similar NGINX config to serve the sites:

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name ~^(?<subdomain>.+)\.example\.com$;
  root /path/to/app/sites/$subdomain/build;
  index index.html;
  error_page 404 /404.html;
  location /404.html {
    root /path/to/app/sites/$subdomain/build;
  }
}

Github

This option requires a personal access token to be created through your github account. Sites will be deployed to a repo prefixed with “statixite-” and deployed to the “gh-pages” branch.

config.deploy_sites_to = :github
config.github_token = 'some token'

Fog

Fog is a cloud service Ruby gem that can allow you to deploy sites to cloud containers. Fog

config.deploy_sites_to = :fog

# Amazon S3 example
config.fog_crednentials {
  :provider                 => 'AWS',
  :aws_access_key_id        => ENV["AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID"],
  :aws_secret_access_key    => ENV["AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"],
}

Contributing

This repo needs some love! We always encourage contributors. Please follow a few simple guidelines:

1. No nonsense

2. Write Some Good Specs (It needs more!)

3. Refactoring, other suggestions welcome