Deploy your octopress website on heroku

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I’ve been using octopress for writing blogs for nearly half of a year. The website is hosted on my family computer, which is a arm-based machine, runs Debian Linux. But such machine can sometimes be powered off by accident. That’s while I want to put my webpages onto a stable server. Most of the people put their website on github, but github may be banned in china, so I choose heroku, I think it may be much more safer.
###Preparation First you have to register the heroku, and then create a new App, you will got a pop-up window which contains following message:

	Your app, XXXX, has been Created.
	App URL:   http://XXXX.herokuapp.com/
	Git URL: git@heroku.com:XXXX.git
	Use the following code to set up your app for local development
	git clone git@heroku.com:XXXX.git -o heroku

You have to remember these messages, for later we will use them to upload our own website. ###Local Modification Clone your remote app to local directory

	git clone git@heroku.com:XXXX.git -o heroku
	cd heroku

Copy your existing octopress to local directory, be sure to remove the existing .git directory in your octopress directory.

	cp Source_Directory ./

Remove some files

	rm Gemfile.lock README.markdown CHANGELOG.markdown

Clear out the .slugignore file

	>.slugignore

Update your gemfile:

	source "https://rubygems.org"
	
	group :development do
	  gem 'rake', '~> 0.9'
	  gem 'jekyll', '~> 0.12'
	  gem 'rdiscount', '~> 1.6.8'
	  gem 'pygments.rb', '~> 0.3.4'
	  gem 'RedCloth', '~> 4.2.9'
	  gem 'haml', '~> 3.1.7'
	  gem 'compass', '~> 0.12.2'
	  gem 'sass', '~> 3.2'
	  gem 'sass-globbing', '~> 1.0.0'
	  gem 'rubypants', '~> 0.2.0'
	  gem 'rb-fsevent', '~> 0.9'
	  gem 'stringex', '~> 1.4.0'
	  gem 'liquid', '~> 2.3.0'
	  gem 'directory_watcher', '1.4.1'
	end
	gem 'rake', '~> 0.9'
	gem 'jekyll', '~> 0.12'
	gem 'rdiscount', '~> 1.6.8'
	gem 'pygments.rb', '~> 0.3.4'
	gem 'RedCloth', '~> 4.2.9'
	gem 'haml', '~> 3.1.7'
	gem 'compass', '~> 0.12.2'
	gem 'sass-globbing', '~> 1.0.0'
	gem 'rubypants', '~> 0.2.0'
	gem 'stringex', '~> 1.4.0'
	gem 'liquid', '~> 2.3.0'
	gem 'sinatra', '~> 1.4.2'

Since we use the rdiscount version is 1.6.8, when generate pages, this will cause failure, we also have to update one line in “_config.yml”:

	markdown: rdiscount
	rdiscount:
	  extensions:
	    - autolink
	      #- footnotes
	    - smart

###Setup Install the dependencies:

	bundle install

Also you want to notice the rvm information, for example I use 1.9.3 for octopress, then my configuration is listed as:

	$ cat .rvmrc
	rvm use 1.9.3
	$ cat ~/.bashrc | grep rvm
	PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin # Add RVM to PATH for scripting

###Testing Generate the website:

	rake generate

Preview the website:

	rake preview

Open http://127.0.0.1:4000 to view the preview result. ###Deploy Add all of the files in current directory to git

	git add .

Commit all of the changes:

	git commit -m 'site initialized'

Push your changes to heroku

	git push heroku master

View your website:

	heroku open

###Ignore some tmp files Create a .gitignore file under the current directory

	.bundle
	.DS_Store
	.sass-cache
	.gist-cache
	.pygments-cache
	_deploy
	public
	sass.old
	source.old
	source/_stash
	source/stylesheets/screen.css
	vendor
	node_modules
	*~

Update the cache via:

	git rm -r --cached .
	git add .
	git commit -m "fixed untracked files"

Push again:

	git push heroku master

Unfortunately, the .gitignore couldn’t remove public, so the final file only contains:

	*~

###Future Modification Add new blogs:

	rake new_post["Your_Article_Name"]

Generate locally:

	rake generate 

Add changes:

	git commit -a 

Push to heroku:

	git push heroku master

Now you have a stable and swift website on heroku, enjoy it. ###Modify theme

	git clone git://github.com/lucaslew/whitespace .themes/Whitespace
	rake install['Whitespace']
	rake generate

More themes could be found at https://github.com/imathis/octopress/wiki/3rd-Party-Octopress-Themes.
You can preview these themes at http://opthemes.com/.
###Change Colorscheme Since our theme locates under the .themes/Whitespace folder, simply change the following files:

$ pwd
/home/Trusty/code/octo/heroku/Tomcat/.themes/Whitespace/sass/base
[Trusty@~/code/octo/heroku/Tomcat/.themes/Whitespace/sass/base]$ cat _solarized.scss
//$solarized: dark !default;
$solarized: light !default;

Now your blog should have the light theme of solarized.