I work from multiple workstations at various locations and I am very dependent on Git to keep order out of everything. I dont really do any collaborative work since I am mostly learning. Since I recently started working with Octopress, I needed a clean workflow to post and publish posts. This is in short what I do.

Initial Setup

The intial setup for Octopress is right out of the installation documentation. The one item to note, while working with Octopress for this first time it was my first hands on experiance with RVM and now I am a convert. I also followed the guide on Using Octopress With Heroku.

Basic Workflow

Now that I have the site up and running on Heroku, I want to be able to work from multiple locations. This is where Git comes back into the picture. I simply run the following.

Clone my App Repository

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git clone -o heroku git@heroku.com:my-app.git

This clones the repo and sets my origin to heroku and now I can update as I see fit.

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rake generate #basic build
git add . #adds updates to local git
git commit -m 'site update' #commits changes to local git
git push heroku master #updates remote git and deploys site