How this blog is powered

This blog is powered by Jekyll, using github actions to publish to an FTP server.

It’s using a template using Simple.css to make it as simple as possible.

Github action

.github/workflows/deploy.yml

name: Build and deploy Jekyll site to xade.eu
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: πŸ“‚ setup
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

        # include the lines below if you are using jekyll-last-modified-at
        # or if you would otherwise need to fetch the full commit history
        # however this may be very slow for large repositories!
        # with:
        # fetch-depth: '0'
      - name: πŸ’Ž setup ruby
        uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1
        with:
          ruby-version: 2.7 # can change this to 2.7 or whatever version you prefer

      - name: πŸ”¨ install dependencies & build site
        uses: limjh16/jekyll-action-ts@v2
        with:
          enable_cache: true
          ### Enables caching. Similar to https://github.com/actions/cache.
          #
          format_output: true
          ### Uses prettier https://prettier.io to format jekyll output HTML.
          #
          # prettier_opts: '{ "useTabs": true }'
          ### Sets prettier options (in JSON) to format output HTML. For example, output tabs over spaces.
          ### Possible options are outlined in https://prettier.io/docs/en/options.html
          #
          # prettier_ignore: 'about/*'
          ### Ignore paths for prettier to not format those html files.
          ### Useful if the file is exceptionally large, so formatting it takes a while.
          ### Also useful if HTML compression is enabled for that file / formatting messes it up.
          #
          # jekyll_src: sample_site
          ### If the jekyll website source is not in root, specify the directory. (in this case, sample_site)
          ### By default, this is not required as the action searches for a _config.yml automatically.
          #
          # gem_src: sample_site
          ### By default, this is not required as the action searches for a _config.yml automatically.
          ### However, if there are multiple Gemfiles, the action may not be able to determine which to use.
          ### In that case, specify the directory. (in this case, sample_site)
          ###
          ### If jekyll_src is set, the action would automatically choose the Gemfile in jekyll_src.
          ### In that case this input may not be needed as well.
          #
          # key: $-gems-$
          # restore-keys: $-gems-
          ### In cases where you want to specify the cache key, enable the above 2 inputs
          ### Follows the format here https://github.com/actions/cache
          #
          # custom_opts: '--drafts --future'
          ### If you need to specify any Jekyll build options, enable the above input
          ### Flags accepted can be found here https://jekyllrb.com/docs/configuration/options/#build-command-options
      - uses: SamKirkland/FTP-Deploy-Action@4.3.3
        with:
          server: ftp.cluster003.hosting.ovh.net
          local-dir: ./_site/
          username: iforever
          password: $
          server-dir: xade/blog/

Ruby script to create posts automatically

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'time'
require 'fileutils'
require 'erb'
require 'optparse'
TEMPLATE = <<~EOS
  ---
  layout: post
  title: <%= title %>
  category: Music Dev Random Literature Video Games Comics Management
  ---
EOS

def slugify(s)
  s.downcase.strip.gsub(' ', '-').gsub(/[^\w-]/, '')
end


ERBContext = Struct.new(:title, keyword_init: true) do
  def access_binding
    binding
  end
end
FOLDER = "_posts"

def create_post(title:, create_folder:)
  date = Date.today

  context = ERBContext.new(title: title)
  result = ERB.new(TEMPLATE).result(context.access_binding)
  formatted_date = date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
  filename = "#{formatted_date}-#{slugify(title)}.md"
  filepath =
    if create_folder
      File.join(FOLDER, formatted_date, filename)
    else
      File.join(FOLDER, filename)
    end
  FileUtils.mkdir_p File.dirname(filepath)
  if File.exist?(filepath)
    warn "File #{filepath} already exists"
  else
    File.write(filepath, result)
    puts "File created: #{filepath}"
  end
end

options = {}
OptionParser.new do |opt|
  opt.on("-f", "--folder", "Create Folder")
end.parse!(into: options)

raise "provide the title as argument" if ARGV.empty?

create_post(title: ARGV.join(' '), create_folder: options[:folder])