middlebot

middlebot is a project that I created to generate a new middleman app with the structure and naming I wanted rather than the default. Also, I wanted to install git, have the option to make a public github repo & have the option to make a heroku app -- all in one command.

Included in the Repo

The Middleman Template

• use .haml files intsead of .erb
• use bundler
• use rack
• include Heroku gem in Gemfile
• specify Ruby version in Gemfile (this requires bundler --pre version and is necessary for heroku to use Ruby 1.9.3)
• use screen.scss instead of site.scss
• add compass/css3 & compass/reset to screen.scss

mbot

mbot is a bash script. mbot is the brains of middlebot. Running mbot will:

• create a middleman install form the above template
• create a .gitignore file
• create a README.md file
• install git
• add and commit to git
• Ask if you want to create github repo."yes" will:
  • prompt you for your username/password
  • create remote repo
  • add remote to .git/config
  • git push
• Ask if you want to create a heroku repo. "yes" will:
  • prompt you for your username/password
  • create heroku app with the project name
  • deploy to heroku

Usage

You will need to have the following dependencies installed on your machine:

• Ruby & Rubygems
• RVM
• Middleman
• git

If all of the above are installed, you will need to add the .middleman folder to your home directory.

If you cloned this repo, you may:

cp -r middlebot/.middleman ~/.middleman

You will then need to have mbot on your path and executable. I use a bin directory. If you cloned the repo you may:

mkdir ~/bin && echo "export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin" >> ~/.bash_profile && source ~/.bash_profile
cp middlebot/mbot ~/bin/mbot && chmod +x ~/bin/mbot

The first command makes the bin folder and adds it to your path. The second command copies the mbot script to you bin folder and makes it executable.

After you have the template in place and the bash script ready to run, you may cd into your project folder and run:

 mbot [project name]

Enjoy!

Important Notes

• You will need a github account & heroku account to create those repos with mbot
• There is no failsafe around trying to create repos on github or heroku with names that already exist. You would need to pick up manually from where mbot left off when it failed.