# Microstatic The microstatic gem turns generating your static site and deploying it to S3 into a one-liner. There's [a blog post](http://blog.thepete.net/blog/2014/01/17/microstatic-radically-simple-static-microsites/) with more details on the what and the why. Microstatic does two things. Firstly it provides a command-line tool that makes it ridiculously simple to create a new microsite. Secondly it provides a rake task that makes it ridiculously simple to push new content to the microsite. ## Creating a new microsite `microstatic setup` and you’re done. This will create a new S3 bucket to hold your microsite, and then add a Route 53 entry to wire that S3 bucket up to a subdomain. ## Deploying content to your microsite `rake deploy` and you’re done. Microstatic ships with a rake task that will sync your local contents with the S3 bucket hosting your site. ## Demo time!

Microstatic: setup a static subdomain microsite in < 30 seconds from Pete Hodgson on Vimeo.

## Credits The s3 deployment code was originally written by [Giles Alexander](http://twitter.com/gga) ## TODO * specify MICROSTATIC_SITE_NAME and cloud creds using dot file