Middleman::Blog::Ui

This gem is mean to work with an exitisting middleman site, that uses both middleman-blog and middleman-blog-drafts.

More information on how it works can be found on my blog, at http://willschenk.com/building-a-gui-for-managing-middleman-blogs/

Given a middleman app with middleman-blog and middleman-blog-drafts configured:

1. Add middleman-blog-ui in your Gemfile.
2. Add activate :blog_ui in config.rb
3. Start middleman server
4. Visit http://localhost:4567/admin.

And now you are living in the fabulous world where you can, from your browser:

• Edit existing drafts and posts
• Create new drafts
• Publish drafts into posts
• Run some basic git commands.
• Run middleman build
• Run middleman deploy

This is mainly a proof of concept, but I'm using it right now to write this post. The app itself needs

1. A decent UI
2. Support for other static generators other than middleman
3. A concept of users
4. Shared drafts
5. Better error handling

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, 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 to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/middleman-blog-ui/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request