Jekyll Auth

A simple way to use GitHub OAuth to serve a protected Jekyll site to your GitHub organization

The problem

Jekyll and GitHub Pages are awesome, right? Static site, lightning fast, everything versioned in Git. What else could you ask for?

But what if you only want to share that site with a select number of people? Before, you were SOL. Now, simply host the site on a free, Heroku Dyno, and whenever someone tries to access it, it will Oauth them against GitHub, and make sure they're a member of your Organization. Pretty cool, huh?

Requirements

1. A GitHub account (one per user)
2. A GitHub Organization (of which members will have access to the Jekyll site)
3. A GitHub Application (you can register one for free)
4. A Heroku account (you can technically use this elsewhere, but the instructions are for Heroku)

Under the hood

Every time you push to Heroku, we take advantage of the fact that Heroku automatically runs the rake assets:precompile command (normally used for Rails sites) to build our Jekyll site and store it statically, just like GitHub pages would.

Anytime a request comes in for a page, we run it through Sinatra (using the _site folder as the static file folder, just as public would be normally), and authenticate it using sinatra_auth_github.

If they're in the org, they get the page. Otherwise, all they ever get is the bouncer.

Further reading

• Configuring
• Getting started
• Running locally
• Troubleshooting