Heroku Ruby Jekyll Buildpack

Heroku Ruby Jekyll Buildpack is a fork of Heroku's official Ruby buildpack with added support for generating static Jekyll sites during the build/deployment stage.

With this buildpack you no longer need pre-build the site or commit the _site build directory to your repo. This simplifies the deployment process and keeps the repo clean. All of the standard Ruby tools are maintained in this buildpack, so you can take full advantage of Rack middleware and other useful tools from the Ruby ecosystem.

Usage

Create a new Cedar-stack app with this buildpack

heroku create -s cedar --buildpack http://github.com/mattmanning/heroku-buildpack-ruby-jekyll.git

or add this buildpack to your current app

heroku config:add BUILDPACK_URL=http://github.com/mattmanning/heroku-buildpack-ruby-jekyll.git

Create a Ruby web app with dependencies managed by Bundler and a Jekyll site. Heroku-Jekyll-Hello-World can be used as a sample starter.

Push to heroku

git push heroku master

Watch it "Building jekyll site"

Counting objects: 12, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (8/8), done.
Writing objects: 100% (8/8), 1.10 KiB, done.
Total 8 (delta 4), reused 0 (delta 0)

-----> Heroku receiving push
-----> Fetching custom build pack... done
-----> Ruby/Rack app detected
-----> Installing dependencies using Bundler version 1.1.rc
       Running: bundle install --without development:test --path vendor/bundle --binstubs bin/ --deployment
       Fetching gem metadata from http://rubygems.org/.......
       Using RedCloth (4.2.8)
       Using posix-spawn (0.3.6)
       Using albino (1.3.3)
       Using fast-stemmer (1.0.0)
       Using classifier (1.3.3)
       Using daemons (1.1.4)
       Using directory_watcher (1.4.1)
       Using eventmachine (0.12.10)
       Using kramdown (0.13.3)
       Using liquid (2.3.0)
       Using syntax (1.0.0)
       Using maruku (0.6.0)
       Using jekyll (0.11.0)
       Using rack (1.3.5)
       Using thin (1.3.1)
       Using bundler (1.1.rc)
       Your bundle is complete! It was installed into ./vendor/bundle
       Cleaning up the bundler cache.
       Building jekyll site
-----> Discovering process types
       Procfile declares types     -> web
       Default types for Ruby/Rack -> console, rake
-----> Compiled slug size is 7.2MB
-----> Launching... done, v47
-----> Deploy hooks scheduled, check output in your logs
       http://www.mwmanning.com deployed to Heroku

To git@heroku.com:mattmanning.git
   8f84bc4..9350a12  master -> master

See Also

The blog post introducing this buildpack: http://mwmanning.com/2011/11/29/Run-Your-Jekyll-Site-On-Heroku.html.