Spreedly Engineering Blog

Middleman app for the Spreedly Engineering Blog loosely based on the Drops middleman template.

Install

To configure and run the app locally:

$ gem install bundler
$ bundle
$ bundle exec middleman

Then open http://localhost:4567 in your browser to view the site or write/design for the site.

Publish

This is part of the larger Engineering Blog program process

To create a new post, create a new file in the source/blog directory. Name it using dasherized form of the title. This will become the URL path so it should be contain the major keywords for the article.

$ touch source/blog/my-blog-title.html.md

You'll need the .html.md at the end of that command. Without it, the post won't show up.

In the post, add this front matter to the top of the file, and add your content below it:

---
title: Programming Puzzles Are Not the Answer
author: Ryan Daigle
author_email: [email protected]
author_url: https://twitter.com/rwdaigle
date: 2016-06-10
tags: hiring
next_label: Want to understand more about the philosophy that got us thinking about work samples in the first place?
next_path: /blog/stop-hazing-your-potential-hires.html
---

*A guide to creating fair and effective hiring work samples.*

It’s a common topic of discussion amongst technical organizations that the traditional, in-person,
...

You can preview the post locally using the "Install" instructions above.

Deploy

Assumes the Heroku Toolbelt is installed and authenticated

If you've never deployed to Heroku before, you'll need to setup the Heroku git remote first. From the project directory:

$ heroku git:remote -a spreedly-engineering-staging -r staging
$ heroku git:remote -a spreedly-engineering -r prod

Deploy to staging

When you're ready to deploy, you can run this:

$ git push staging master

To view the staging docs go to http://spreedly-engineering-staging.herokuapp.com/, or invoke $ heroku open -r staging.

Deploy to production

This is the same as deploying to staging, except the command looks like this:

$ git push prod master

After deploying, the site should then be visible at https://engineering.spreedly.com.