HOWTO.md

Steps to publish a Riding Rails article

1. Clone the weblog repository

   $ git clone git@github.com:rails/weblog.git

2. Checkout the gh-pages branch

   $ cd weblog && git checkout gh-pages

3. Create a post in the _posts directory with the date and permalink in the name

   $ vi _posts/YYYY-MM-DD-permalink.format

4. Write your post

   ---
   layout: post
   title: Your post title
   categories: [Releases,Edge]
   author: Your Name
   published: true
   date: 2012-03-07 19:22:00 +00:00
   ---
   Your post content in HTML, Textile or Markdown format

5. Commit and push

   $ git add . && git commit -m 'My commit message' && git push

6. There is no step six - GitHub will rebuild the _site directory