We want to use static files for the Foodkit.io website, because they're fast, easy to serve, and secure.
But maintaining a full website using static HTML is painful because of code duplication and content management.
To gain the performance and security benefits of a static site while maintaining the flexibility and speed of development of a dynamic site, we use Middleman.
Middleman allows us to maintain our site using Ruby/Erb files which are compiled down to static HTML during deployment.
Install dependencies:
bundle install
npm install
... Middleman provides a web server which can be run using:
bundle exec middleman
Middleman will watch the file system and automatically recompile assets as needed.
See here for more information.
Use bin/deploy.sh to create a production build and sync it with the remote server.
USERNAME=user IDENTITY=~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub bin/deploy.sh