rakefile.rb

#Derived from https://github.com/avdgaag/arjanvandergaag.nl/blob/28539bc736a05b28f2aa4ef81e4f61f3f91375a0/Rakefile
task :default => :dev

MY_URL = "http://www.code52.org"
MY_NAME = "code52 team"

desc 'Ping pingomatic'
task :ping do
  begin
    require 'xmlrpc/client'
    puts '* Pinging ping-o-matic'
    XMLRPC::Client.new('rpc.pingomatic.com', '/').call('weblogUpdates.extendedPing', MY_NAME , MY_URL, MY_URL + '/rss.xml')
  rescue LoadError
    puts '! Could not ping ping-o-matic, because XMLRPC::Client could not be found.'
  end
end

desc 'Notify Google of the new sitemap'
task :sitemap do
  begin
    require 'net/http'
    require 'uri'
    puts '* Pinging Google about our sitemap'
    Net::HTTP.get('www.google.com', '/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=' + URI.escape(MY_URL + '/sitemap.xml'))
  rescue LoadError
    puts '! Could not ping Google about our sitemap, because Net::HTTP or URI could not be found.'
  end
end

desc 'Run Jekyll in development mode'
task :dev do
  puts '* Running Jekyll with auto-generation and server'
  puts `jekyll --auto --server`
end

desc 'Run Jekyll to generate the site'
task :build do
  puts '* Generating static site with Jekyll'
  puts `jekyll`
end

desc 'Push source code to Github'
task :push do
  puts '* Pushing to Github'
  puts `git push github master`
  
  puts '* Pushing to heroku'
  puts `git push heroku master`
end

desc 'Generate and publish the entire site, and send out pings'
task :publish => [:build, :push, :sitemap, :ping] do
end

desc 'create new post or bit. args: type (post, bit), title, future (# of days)'
# rake new type=(bit|post) future=0 title="New post title goes here" slug="slug-override-title"
task :new do
  require 'rubygems'
  require 'chronic'
  
  type = ENV["type"] || "bit"
  title = ENV["title"] || "New Title"
  future = ENV["future"] || 0
  slug = ENV["slug"].gsub(' ','-').downcase || title.gsub(' ','-').downcase

  if type == "bit"
    TARGET_DIR = "_bits"
  elsif future.to_i < 3
    TARGET_DIR = "_posts"
  else
    TARGET_DIR = "_drafts"
  end

  if future.to_i.zero?
    filename = "#{Time.new.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')}-#{slug}.markdown"
  else
    stamp = Chronic.parse("in #{future} days").strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
    filename = "#{stamp}-#{slug}.markdown"
  end
  path = File.join(TARGET_DIR, filename)
  post = <<-HTML
--- 
layout: TYPE
title: "TITLE"
date: DATE
---

HTML
  post.gsub!('TITLE', title).gsub!('DATE', Time.new.to_s).gsub!('TYPE', type)
  File.open(path, 'w') do |file|
    file.puts post
  end
  puts "new #{type} generated in #{path}"
  system "open -a textmate #{path}"
end