Gitlab Ci Deployment

I’m currently playing around with https://gitlab.com and their CI for deploying a jekyll website.

My current workflow publishes my sites to S3/Cloudfront after running them thru a Rake task that minifies the js/css/html files. I also have octopress-autoprefixer installed and that allows jekyll to autoprefix the css as it builds the site.

I’m pretty happy with all 3 of these things in my current setup, but that means I always have to build locally and then deploy to the S3. I would really like to be able to edit things online in the repository directly - when I have just a minor change - as it is so much easier.

I think I will be able to do this with Gitlabs CI, but I have not found any examples that do all 3 things:

Auto-prefix the css (done)
Minify all the files (done)
Deploy to S3

So far I think I have the auto-prefix part solved, but it was not easy. Simply adding the octopress gem didn’t work, there was an error about there not being a js runner, which is where the rubyracer gem comes in. Once I added that it was having an error: jekyll 3.2.1 | Error: "\xE6" on US-ASCII. That seemed to do with the locale not being set to utf-8, so I found a post with a way to set that, added it in and now it is working.

I now have the minify working using the Reduce Gem. It is based on Yuicompressor which is really old, but it works fine for compressing html (and I think JS). I have jekyll minify the sass as it builds. In order to get the reduce gem to work, I had to install java apt-get install -y openjdk-7-jre-headless.

Next will be deploying to S3, but I have already seen a post about how to do that, and since I already have Java installed it should be easy. Ha. I also need to change the way it is happening - I need to make it so it only deploys when I tell it to - as it is now it rebuilds and deploys on every commit, which is ok, but when I need to work on more than one file it seems like a bad idea.

gitlab.ci.yml file:

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image: ruby:2.3
test:
  stage: test
  script:
  - gem install jekyll
  - jekyll build -d test
  artifacts:
    paths:
    - test
  except:
  - master
pages:
  stage: deploy
  script:
  - apt-get update -y
  - apt-get install -y openjdk-7-jre-headless
  - apt-get install -y locales
  - echo "en_US UTF-8" > /etc/locale.gen
  - locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
  - export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  - export LANGUAGE=en_US:en
  - export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
  - gem install therubyracer
  - gem install reduce
  - gem install jekyll
  - gem install octopress-autoprefixer
  - jekyll build -d public
  - rake minify
  artifacts:
    paths:
    - public
  only:
  - master

GITLAB CI DEPLOYMENT