OctoMars

NOTICE

OctoMars is no longer supported and has reached its end of life. If another maintainer is interested contact me to take over.

About

Use MarsEdit to publish to the Octopress static blogging system.

This script is fairly simple and was written to scratch an itch. Any and all contributions will be considered.

Requirements

Octomars requires the gitpython module. Install it with:

sudo easy_install gitpython

Installing OctoMars

To install octomars on your system run the following from the repository root that you've cloned:

python ./setup.py install

If you get an error with the above command try installing with sudo:

sudo python ./setup.py install

Configuring MarsEdit

This is a sample configuration of MarsEdit to use octomars to post to an Octopress static blog:

1. Make a directory in your local Octopress directory to hold MarsEdit posts.

    mkdir ~/Blog/source/_marsedit
   

   Add source/_marsedit to the .gitignore file if you don't want to worry about the _marsedit directory in your git repository.

2. Create a new blog in MarsEdit with the File > New Blog… menu item.

   Enter the blog name and url. MarsEdit will fail to detect the blog settings and present you with a dialog, click on the Edit Settings button to continue.

   

3. You will be presented with a blog settings dialog.

   

   To setup your Octopress static blog set the:

   • System Name pulldown to Other

   • System API pulldown to Blosxom API

   • Choose your source/_marsedit directory as the Blosxom folder

   • In the last text entry box enter a command like this to call octomars:

       /usr/local/bin/octomars --commit --push %@
     

   Be sure to set the path to your octomars install location and to adjust the parameters to suit your needs (remove git commands, don't deploy the static files, etc.).