Automatic Deployment to Github Pages with Bridgetown

One great aspect of Bridgetown is how easy it is to set up automated deployment to Github Pages. Here is a quick walkthrough.

Bridgetown comes with a script to get you started:

bin/bridgetown configure gh-pages

That command does two things:

1. Adds x86_64-linux as a platform to your Gemfile.lock, which will all the build to work properly in Github Actions.
2. Copies a new workflow to .github/workflows/gh-pages.yml

After running that command you should be good to commit and push the change. Then configure the pages for the repo so that the source is “Github Actions”:

Now, every time you push a change to the repo, it should deploy automatically!