grumpydocker/slate-builder repository overview

⁠Docker image for building Slate⁠ static HTML

Just give the container two volumes:

⁠Example

⁠Build static HTML site

Build Slate Markdown sources from /some/source/dir on the host machine into static HTML in /some/build/dir on the host machine.

Example below creates a build directory first (if the host directory doesn't exist, docker will create it owned by root, which is less then desirable since we're just trying to build a static HTML site). It also specifies --user so docker runs as the current user/group, so the generated files are owned by the current user.

mkdir -p /some/build/dir
docker run -it --rm \
 -v /some/source/dir:/app/source \
 -v /some/build/dir:/app/build \
 --user=$UID:$GID \
 grumpydocker/slate-builder

⁠Serve built content with Nginx on port 8080

docker run -dt --name=some-docs -p :8080:80 \
 -v /some/build/dir:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro \
 nginx

⁠Why

Who wants to ruin their personal machine or build server with Ruby?