Auto deploying middleman via Travis-CI

travis-ci • deployment

I spun up a Today I Learned site based on Today Icelab Learned. But I wanted a simple set up where any push would auto deploy, and I didn’t have to run some other service to do that. So a bit of quick Travis hacking with the help of this article and Travis is now building the site and deploying to the gh-pages branch.

The main additions are were adding NodeJS (as well as Ruby) and running bin/setup during install

Adding NodeJS to our ruby build

It turns out Travis already include NodeJS and nvm. So getting the version we want is super simple:

before_install:
  - nvm install node

Here’s the final .travis.yml:

rvm:
- 2.3.0
branches:
  only:
  - master
cache: bundler
before_install:
  - nvm install node
install:
  - bin/setup
before_script:
- git config --global user.name '${GIT_NAME}'
- git config --global user.email '${GIT_EMAIL}'
- git remote set-url origin https://rjmackay:${GH_TOKEN}@github.com/rjmackay/til.git
script:
- bundle exec middleman deploy
env:
  global:
  - GIT_NAME: Your name
  - GIT_EMAIL: you@email.com
  - secure: # Insert encrypted GH_TOKEN here