Given that you are hosting the code for your ember-cli application or addon on Github, you might want to publish it to Github Pages. This is especially nice if you are creating an addon and want to show a demo of how it works.
When hosting on Github Pages the url for your project site will be
http://yourusername.github.io/projectname
To tell the ember-cli application that we are not running on the root domain, we have to update the baseURL in environment.js
// apps: config/environment.js
// addons: tests/dummy/config/environment.js
if (environment === 'production') {
ENV.baseURL = '/projectname'
}
Without changing this, the app or addon will look for the assets folder in username.github.io/assets when it will be located in username.github.io/projectname/assets
Now that we have changed the baseURL we are ready to build the application and publish it. Github Pages serves the site in its own branch called gh-pages. To build, create the new branch and publish the site we can use the following script
// publishToGithubPages.sh
#!/bin/bash
git branch -D gh-pages
git push origin --delete gh-pages
git checkout -b gh-pages
ember build --environment production
git rm -rf app addon config tests
git rm -rf Brocfile.js bower.json package.json testem.json
git rm -rf .bowerrc .editorconfig .jshintrc .travis.yml
mv dist/* .
rm -rf dist
git add .
git commit -m "Publishing to github pages"
git push origin gh-pages
git checkout master