Deploying Octopress via SFTP

There were some great tutorials online concerning octopress deployment via rsync or ftp. Unfortunately, my web hosting service only supports access via sftp.

So here it goes:

I wanted to upload my generated html into the directory /octopress of my web host. So modified _config.yml like this:

destination: octopress

and added to Rakefile:

public_dir = "octopress"

## ...

sftp_user = "<user name>"
sftp_target = "<hostname>"
deploy_default = "sftp"

desc "Deploy website via SFTP"
task :sftp do
        puts "## Deploying website via SFTP"
        ok_failed system("echo 'put -r #{public_dir}\n bye' | sftp #{sftp_user}@#{sftp_target}")
end

Now I can just run

rake deploy

and enter my password to upload everything.

ToDo: optimize the mirroring routine so it does not reupload everything everytime