Automatically publishing static websites

.travis.yml

# go is not actually required for the build process, but I've
# had issues with golang on some lightweight distributions
# such as alpine; using the go image ensures that the build
# will not have any issues running hugo
language: go
go:
- 1.7
env:
  global:
  - HUGO_VERSION=0.26  # set in the environment to make it easy 
  matrix:
    # would be a long string; removed to read easier here.
    secure: <secure_token>
# install hugo before the build is run; download the public
# release, untar, and copy it to a known location
before_install:
- mkdir -p bin
- curl -L https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v${HUGO_VERSION}/hugo_${HUGO_VERSION}_Linux-64bit.tar.gz
  -o bin/hugo.tar.gz
- tar xzvvf bin/hugo.tar.gz -C ./bin
# on build attempt to generate the site
script:
- "./bin/hugo"
# the deploy configuration for github pages; this is an
# out-of-the-box travis feature
deploy:
  provider: pages
  # publish the "public" folder, where hugo builds by default
  local_dir: public
  skip_cleanup: true
  # use the github token stored in the environment, which is
  # securely encrypted in `matrix.secure` above
  github_token: "$GITHUB_TOKEN"
  # only publish on master branch builds
  on:
    branch: master