Cheshirecat

Cheshirecat is an alternative deploy tool designed for middleman.

It is good to use middleman-deploy in a typical situation. However, middleman-deploy assumes a target git repository and source git repository are same. So we cannot separate source repository and a repository that contains build files.

Cheshirecat can deply built files to another repository by simple command cheshirecat.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'cheshirecat'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install cheshirecat

Following code is an example of usage of cheshirecat. Type like it in a directory of source repository,

$ (bundle exec) cheshirecat ./build 'git@github.com:mozamimy/mozamimy.github.com.git' master 'Moza USANE', 'mozamimy@quellencode.org'

First argument is a directory that contains built files, second argument is remote repository, third argument is a name of target branch, forth argument is your name, and fifth argument is your email address.

In result, built files in build directory are pushed to specified branch of also specified remote repository, and the commit's author and email address are specified one.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/mozamimy/cheshirecat.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.