Gobot Website

This is the code for the website for Gobot (http://gobot.io) a framework for robotics, drones, and the Internet of Things (IoT) written using the Go programming language (http://golang.org/)

If you are looking for the actual Gobot code itself, it is at https://github.com/hybridgroup/gobot

This site is built using Middleman

To run locally:

  bundle install
  bundle exec middleman

Documentation

This project uses HAML.

If you want to help us with the documentation of the site, you can follow this steps :

• 1) Download the zip of the branch "master" or clone the project with git.

    git clone git@github.com:hybridgroup/gobot-site.git "name"

• 2) Create a new branch for the project and switch to that new branch.

    git branch "new_name"
    git checkout "new_name"

  or

  git checkout -b "new_name"

• 3) Open the project with your favourite text editor.

• 4) Go to the file source/documentation , which has all the documentation of the site.

Platforms

All of the page content is generated from the platform's github repo. To add new documentation to any platform, edit the readme in the respective Gobot module's repository.

In order for the readme to be properly extracted, the content being pushed to the site must:

• include a ## How to Install section following the platform introduction
• have a new line after each code block

To import platforms from the main Gobot repository, run the bin/import_platforms script. You'll need to have Git installed.

This script will:

• clone down the Gobot repos
• extract all platform readmes
• convert github markdown syntax to be haml compatible
• save the platform documentation to source/documentation/platforms/partials

Drivers

To add new information to any driver, do this :

• 1) Go to the file source/documentation/drivers , and select the driver you want to edit.

Examples

To import examples from the main Gobot repository, run the bin/import_examples script. You'll need to have Git installed.

This script will:

• clone down the Gobot repo
• extract all examples
• create missing example pages and remove those that have also been removed from the main repo
• create/update examples index page

Repo Docs

To import docs partials from Gobot adaptor repositories, run the bin/import_repo_docs script.

This script will:

• clone down Gobot adaptor repositories
• extract all docs/*.md documents
• add them as partials to source/documentation/drivers/partials

If you want to only import docs from a single repo:

bin/import_repo_docs hybridgroup/gobot-gpio

or

bin/import_repo_docs https://github.com/hybridgroup/gobot-gpio.git

Images

To add images for platforms or devices:

• remove entire background
• the image should be 800 width x 600 height
• layer effect: White color overlay with blend mode HUE

Background color is #F3F1EB

To replace background color using GIMP:

https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Changing_Background_Color_1/

Send your Pull Request

When you have your code ready, create a new PR : base: master and compare:"your_branch"

Deploy

middleman-gh-pages gem is being used to build the webpage and deploy to gh-pages branch.

For deploying the webpage, your must be in 'master' branch and run the following command:

  rake publish

You must not have any uncomitted or untracked files in the site dirs, or the publish operation will fail with a message such as Directory not clean.

If the publish fails, you might need to remove the build dir before trying to run rake publish again.