Apache Thrift Website

The thrift website is made up of markdown files and templates and uses the nanoc static website generator.

Website Development

In order to get started developing and testing the Thrift website ruby must be installed along with the bundler gem.

• Install Bundler:
  • gem install bundler
• Install all gem dependencies via bundler:
  • bundle install
• Run any of the following:
  • rake clean - Remove any temporary products
  • rake dev - Watch content folder for changes and autogen the site
  • rake gen - Compile the website templates into a static site
  • rake run - Run the website locally on http://localhost:3000/

Updating Release Versions

The current release versioning is kept in the global configuration file config.yaml. Update the following values and then following Updating the Website section below

current_release: "0.9.0"
current_release_date: "2012-10-15"

Updating the website

After you have updated any content or added new markdown files you will need to regenerate the static website and publish these changes.

• rake gen (static website is left in the 'output' folder)
• Check in all the changes

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