compress files to save on traffic

compress-html.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/zsh
+# Copyright muflax <mail@muflax.com>, 2012
+# License: GNU GPL 3 <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>
+
+setopt RE_MATCH_PCRE
+
+echo "compressing 'out'..."
+
+for f in out/**/*(.); do
+  if [[ $f =~ "\.(html|css|xml|js)$" ]]; then
+    gzip --best -f -v -c "$f" > "$f.gz" 
+  fi
+done

content/htaccess

@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 # manual 404 page
 ErrorDocument 404 /404/index.html
 
-# don't alienate people who use the old feed
+# rewrite stuff
 RewriteEngine on
+
+# don't alienate people who use the old feed
 RewriteRule ^feed/? /rss.xml
+
+# serve gzipped files if available
+RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
+RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.gz$
+RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.gz -f 
+RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.gz [L] 

tasks/compress.rake

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# compress all text files in out/ to save on traffic
+
+namespace :compress do
+  desc "compress html (and related) files"
+  task :html do
+    system "./compress-html.sh"
+  end
+
+end
+
+desc "compress everything"
+task :compress => ['compress:html']

tasks/publish.rake

@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ namespace :publish do
 end
 
 desc "publish complete site"
-task :publish => ['publish:push', 'publish:deploy']
+task :publish => ['publish:push', 'compress', 'publish:deploy']