Middleman and Cloud Foundry

Middleman is a static site generator; Cloud Foundry is a Platform as a Service.

Deploying a Middleman static site to Cloud Foundry can be achieved in two ways:

• building the site and pushing the resultant static files
• configuring Middleman to integrate with a Rack-enabled webserver and pushing everything.

Serving static files is more efficient than running a Rack-enabled webserver, and additionally will not require any extra files or configuration. It is therefore the preferred option.

###Static-file buildpack

Static files can be pushed to Cloud Foundry via the static-file buildpack.

1. Build the site:

   $ bundle exec middleman build
   

2. Push the site:

   $ cf push middleman-site \
       -m 32M \
       -p build/ \
       -b https://github.com/cloudfoundry/staticfile-buildpack.git
   

   The syntax is as follows:

   $ cf push <app-name> \
       -m <memory-limit> \
       -p <app-directory> \
       -b <custom-buildpack-url>
   

###Rack-enabled webserver

The ruby buildpack will automatically detect and execute Rack-enabled webservers if a config.ru file is present.

1. Add a basic config.ru file with the following contents:

   require 'rubygems'
   require 'middleman/rack'
   
   run Middleman.server
   

2. Push the application to Cloud Foundry

   $ cf push middleman-site -m 64M