Creating .travis.yml file to auto-deploy to gh-pages

[Aaron Meurer]

Does Nikola have the ability to automatically generate a .travis.yml
file to build and deploy the site to gh-pages? If not, is that
something that you would be interested in adding?

Aaron Meurer

[tritiu...@sdamon.com]

Nikola has built in github pages deployment.

https://getnikola.com/handbook.html#deploying-to-github

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[Aaron Meurer]

Yes, I know about that. It's what I use currently. But I'd like to
build and deploy my site on Travis CI.

Basically, I want a command, like nikola configure-travis, which

- Sets up a deploy key for GitHub, and encrypts it.
- (Optionally) uploads said key to GitHub
- Creates a .travis.yml file with the encryption key for the above
deploy key encrypted in an encrypted environment variable, with the
steps to install nikola, build the site, and run nikola github_deploy.
- (Optionally) authenticates to and enables Travis (assuming this is
possible from the API)
- (Optionally) runs git add on the encrypted deploy key and
.travis.yml so that I can commit them.

By the way, for the first two steps, I've written a tool that can be
useful, https://github.com/drdoctr/doctr.

Aaron Meurer

[Roberto Alsina]

Sounds useful!

[Puneeth Chaganti]

Aaron,

> Yes, I know about that. It's what I use currently. But I'd like to
> build and deploy my site on Travis CI.

I had written something a while back, that tries to do this:

http://statiki.herokuapp.com/
https://github.com/punchagan/statiki

I no longer maintain it, but it should still work. Or should at least help
someone wanting to write a nikola command.

Thanks,
Puneeth

[Damián Avila]

I would be interesting to see something like you described Aaron.

To encrypt variables on travisci you probably need to interact with the travis command line application written in ruby, IIRC... so it would be, I guess, a nice interesting mix of languages ;-)

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[Aaron Meurer]

I wrote the code to do it in Python in the tool doctr that I mentioned. So you can reuse that. 

Aaron Meurer 

[Aaron Meurer]

So an update on this. You can use doctr to deploy your pages to
gh-pages from Travis quite easily. This is much better than the method
outlined in the Nikola docs, because doctr handles the SSH key stuff
for you automatically. I also found that nikola github_deploy was
doing too much, so I also use doctr to do the actual syncing of files
to the gh-pages branch.

It's really simple to do. I wrote a blog post about it here
http://www.asmeurer.com/blog/posts/automatically-deploying-this-blog-to-github-pages-with-travis-ci/

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