MiddleDrive

Quick start

gem install middleman
middleman init new_site

To Gemfile in new_site add middle_drive

gem 'middle_drive'

Then run

cd new_site
bundle
middle_drive init

Manual install

gem install middle_drive

Setup

Middleman setup

middle_drive init

Google drive setup conventions

• create a new collection in your google drive. Name it the same like in middle_drive.yml's site.collection value.
• create google spreadsheet named pages inside this site.collection
  • each tab in this spreadsheet represents a page
  • value in first row and first column represents a template which will be used by middleman
• create google spreadsheet named data_:language inside site.collection
  • each tab in this spreadsheet represents different list
  • first data cell represents template and data type (template:data_type). Supported data types are array, hash and list.
• use protected ranges to prevent customer changing the structure of pages: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/63175

Quick helpers

Hash

<section class="article">
  <h3><%= d(locals).title %></h3>
  <%= d(locals).content %>
  <%= image_tag d(locals).image %>
</section>

List

<% d(locals).each do |post| %>
  <h2><%= post.title %></h2>
  <%= post.content %>
  <span><%= post.date %></span>
<% end %>

Usage

middle_drive

This command will sync images and page information from your Google Drive collection which was set in middle_drive.yml file.

middle_drive update

Will search for update spreadsheet inside collection. If first A1 column will include please update value it will sync all other data and clear up update flag. This is useful for circular checking if there are new updates to be fetched.

TODO

• tests!
• when building from scratch it would be better to start building pages.yml, data.yml, en.yml files locally and then run init to build structure on google drive
• http://tvaughan.github.io/middleman-deploy/ + https://github.com/javan/whenever to run middle_drive update