After setting up the basic install of my Jekyll site, I then migrated the posts of my current Drupal site over to Jekyll.

Migrating Drupal Posts to Jekyll

Migration was also easy as I only needed to follow these steps. I first installed the extensions sequel and mysqlplus.

$ sudo gem install sequel mysqlplus

After this, I downloaded a backup copy of the database of my current blog using Backup and Migrate and imported it to a newly created database. As far as I know, you would only actually need the tables node and node_revisions. My Drupal site has a prefix drpl_ for its tables so I need to make some minor modifications on the migration script. If you are not aware if where the migration script exists, I was able to find it at /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/jekyll-0.11.2/lib/jekyll/migrators/drupal.rb. I've prepended the tables with drpl_. You can also opt to use this script to remove the prefixes. The migration script also makes use of the System URL i.e. node/[nid]. I've read in other sites that the script messes up when nodes use an alias. What I did was that I deleted all aliases since the database I'm using is only a backup. I did mysql -u user -p -e "TRUNCATE TABLE drpl_url_alias" for this.

After preparing the script and removing the aliases, I executed the migration command from Jekyll's documentation.

$ ruby -rubygems -e 'require "jekyll/migrators/drupal"; Jekyll::Drupal.process("database", "user", "pass")'

Note: You'll need to execute this on the root directory of your site which is $HOME/dsdeiz.github.com/ for me.

After the migration, the posts were created under the directory _posts. All I needed to do then was to just move them over to my subdirectory blog, added the variable category: blog for the YAML Front Matter on each post and made some changes on the posts for images, code highlighting and file attachments.

Deploying the Site

I've used Github's Pages feature to host the site. Deployment was also very easy as Github has documented it here. I only followed the instructions and waited for a few minutes for the site to be published. For updating the site, I only needed to push the changes and new files over to my repo.