Alternative deploy to github pages instead of Rakefile

[gareth-cheeseman]

Not an issue, but putting this here, in case it helps someone else. (thanks for the great theme btw) I didn't want to use the UploadToGithub.Rakefile.

Github pages can now be deployed to with github actions publishing with github actions.

I develop in vscode using a devcontainer docker image, so I used this workflow that is very similar to the github actions default one. The differences are running it in the same container image I develop in and having the plan build step. (the github default one uses their executable that only allows their allowed list of plugins).

# Sample workflow for building and deploying a Jekyll site to GitHub Pages
name: Deploy Jekyll with GitHub Pages dependencies preinstalled

on:
  # Runs on pushes targeting the default branch
  push:
    branches: ["master"]

  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
  workflow_dispatch:

# Sets permissions of the GITHUB_TOKEN to allow deployment to GitHub Pages
permissions:
  contents: read
  pages: write
  id-token: write

# Allow one concurrent deployment
concurrency:
  group: "pages"
  cancel-in-progress: true

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container: mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/jekyll:0-bullseye
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Setup Pages
        uses: actions/configure-pages@v3
      - name: Build with Jekyll
        run: |
          bundle install
          jekyll build
      - name: Upload artifact
        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v1

  # Deployment job
  deploy:
    environment:
      name: github-pages
      url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: build
    steps:
      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
        id: deployment
        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v1

This allows me to develop normally with a gitignore that includes the _site folder. And deploys on any push to master.