glitchwrks.com Source

This project contains the source, configuration, et c. use with Jekyll to generate glitchwrks.com. The Jekyll site is completely static, but does make use of several dynamic projects:

• site_services -- Sinatra app that provides hit counter services
• rails_services -- Rails app that provides many dynamic functions, such as the contact form

Plugins

There are a number of custom plugins found in the _plugins directory. These include:

• codeblock formats blocks of source code, extends Jekyll's built-in highlight block
• textblock formats blocks of fixed width plaintext
• counter generates a JavaScript include for counters from site_services -- Sinatra app that provides hit counter services
• danger generates an attention-getting notice on the page
• linked_image places one or more image thumbnails on the page, with links to high-res versions
• contact puts a contact form link in, defaulting to "contact us" for link text

See some of the files in the _posts directory for the usage of these plugins.

_upload.sh.example

This is the short shell script that uses rsync to keep glitchwrks.com updated with the code Jekyll generates. It should work with most UNIX-like operating systems, and currently deploys to an OpenBSD machine.

Development Environment

I mostly use this project under Slackware Linux 14.2 with RVM for Ruby version management and bundler for gemset management. Current development Ruby is MRI 2.3.1p112.

Since the generated site is static, none of the development dependencies are required on the production server.