A Rakefile to help managing a Jekyll site. Fill out your own ssh config in the CONFIG hash. Note that publish requires that you have ssh keys set up with your server, this doesn't work with ssh passwords (because I didn't need it).

Rakefile

require 'pty'

CONFIG = {
  :remote => {
    :host => 'my.ssh-host.com',
    :user => 'my-ssh-username',
    :path => 'path-to/site/root'
  },
  :posts => 'local/posts/directory'
}

def build
  # Generate Site
  puts `jekyll`

  # Copy .htaccess across
  FileUtils.cp './.htaccess', './_site/.htaccess'
end

def publish
  puts 'Publishing site to sever...'

  cmd = "rsync -av ./_site/ -e ssh #{CONFIG[:remote][:user]}@#{CONFIG[:remote][:host]}:#{CONFIG[:remote][:path]}"
  
  puts cmd
  # Shell out to rsync
  begin
    PTY.spawn(cmd) do |stdin, stdout, pid|
      begin
        stdin.each { |line| print line }
      rescue Errno::EIO
        puts 'Errno:EIO error'
      end
    end
  rescue PTY::ChildExited
    puts 'The child process exited!'
  end
end

desc 'Generate site with Jekyll'
task :build do
  build
end

desc 'Generate site with Jekyll and then push results to the server'
task :publish do
  build
  publish
end

# Usage: rake post title="A Title" [date="2012-02-09"] [category="portfolio"]
desc "Begin a new post"
task :post do
  category = ENV['category'] || ''
  dir      = CONFIG[:posts]
  title    = ENV["title"] || "new-post"
  slug     = title.downcase.strip.gsub(' ', '-').gsub(/[^\w-]/, '')

  abort("rake aborted: '#{dir}' directory not found.") unless FileTest.directory?(dir)

  begin
    date = (ENV['date'] ? Time.parse(ENV['date']) : Time.now).strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
  rescue Exception => e
    puts "Error - date format must be YYYY-MM-DD, please check you typed it correctly!"
    exit -1
  end

  filename = File.join(dir, "#{date}-#{slug}.md")
  abort("rake aborted: file #{filename} already exists") if File.exist?(filename)

  puts "Creating new post: #{filename}..."
  # Create new post file
  open(filename, 'w') do |post|
    post.puts "---"
    post.puts "layout: post"
    post.puts "title: #{title.gsub(/-/,' ')}"
    post.puts "category: #{category}"
    post.puts "---"
  end
  puts 'Done!'
end

tasks

# Available tasks

rake build
    Generate site with Jekyll and then clean up unneeded files ready to deploy

rake post
    Begin a new post

rake publish
    Generate site with Jekyll and then rsync results to the server