Zen like blog editor for your Jekyll blog, heavily inspired by Svbtle and Obtvse.

Dashboard

Editor

Fullscreen editing

Edit YAML Data

Mobile Dashboard and Editing

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Two commands, one for installing, another for running.

  gem install pagoda-jekyll
  pagoda .

Requirements:

1. Heroku
2. Git
3. Your Jekyll Repo

git clone https://github.com/alagu/pagoda
cd pagoda
heroku create
bundle exec rake heroku

Each post created with pagoda will have a default yaml data. To modify it, create a _default.yml in your jekyll repository and commit it.

I use basic http authentication in real world use. I've deployed through nginx + unicorn. There could be easier deployment than this.

This is still not well organized, but the setup works.

mkdir -p tmp/pids
mkdir tmp/sock

pid "./tmp/pids/blog-admin.pid"
listen "unix:./tmp/sock/blog-admin.sock"
ENV['blog'] = '/path/to/your/jekyll/blog'

cd /path/to/pagoda
rvm use 1.9.3
unicorn -c unicorn.rb  -D

Note: This should be run as bash --login start.sh

htpasswd -c /path/to/httpasswd/file alagu
New password: <enterpasswd>
Re-type new password: <re-enterpasswd>
Adding password for user alagu

myblog.com shows the generated blog and myblog.com/admin pops up a http authentication for your admin.

upstream unicorn_server {
   server unix:/path/to/tmp/sock/blog-admin.sock;
}

server {
        server_name myblog.com;

        listen 80;

        location / {
           root  /path/to/your/jekyll/blog/_site/;
        }

        location /admin {
                auth_basic "Restricted";
                auth_basic_user_file /path/to/htpasswd/file;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
                proxy_redirect off;
                proxy_pass http://unicorn_server;
        }
}

I get ArgumentError - invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII

Set localte to UTF-8

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8