Deploying Slate

Slate spits out a bunch of static HTML, Javascript, and CSS, so it's pretty trivial to host.

Publishing Your Docs to GitHub Pages

Publishing your API documentation couldn't be more simple.

1. Make sure you're working on a fork in your own account, not our original repo: git remote show origin.
2. Commit your changes to the markdown source: git commit -a -m "Update index.md"
3. Push the markdown source changes to GitHub: git push
4. Run ./deploy.sh

NOTE: Using the git way, you should not make changes to your repo on github.com for example.

Done! Your changes should now be live on http://yourusername.github.io/slate, and the main branch should be updated with your edited markdown. Note that if this is your first time publishing Slate, it can sometimes take ten minutes or so before your content is available online. It can also take a moment even if it's not the first time.

Also, thanks to X1011 for the excellent deploy script.

Publishing Your Docs to Your Own Server

Do not, I repeat, do not run Middleman on your production server. Middleman is not designed to be secure on a public server. It is not designed to load pages quickly. It is purely for development.

You can publish static documents to your own server using bundle exec middleman build --clean. Middleman will build your website to the build directory of your project, and you can copy those static HTML files to the server of your choice. Since you're just copying static files over, you don't need to run Middleman on your server.

Another alternative is to use the middleman-deploy gem.

Custom Domains with GitHub

If you're hosting Slate with GitHub Pages, setting up a custom domain name is simple! Just follow the instructions in GitHub's help center. Note that instead of putting the CNAME file in the root directory of your Slate, you should put it in the source folder. When Middleman publishes to the gh-pages branch, it will copy it to the root folder of that branch.