EDIT: The easiest way to do this these days is likely to use the ember-cli addon

I didn’t take great notes throughout this process, though I’m hoping I can help get some others moving in the right direction for getting ember.js and ember CLI running on github pages, with a few other notes about getting Jekyll in place alongside ember.

Start by installing ember-cli and creating a new project via ember new myWebsite. The next thing I did was remove the dist folder from the .gitignore file. The reason for this is to be able to deploy with a single git command…tracking your build folder is a big no-no but this is quick and dirty. I recommend the cli addon mentioned in my edit above.

Next, I setup the git origin to point to my username.github.io repo. Then, I added the following alias to my .aliases file (although .bash_profile or elsewhere would certainly work:

alias pushSite="git subtree push --prefix dist origin master"

With that in place, the general deployment strategy would be to make changes, ember build, git add and commit, run any tests, then run the alias to deploy to github.

Adding Jekyll

Github supports Jekyll out of the box for its pages, but since we want ember at our root path, we’ll do a classic Jekyll installation, without using the github jekyll builds. First, gem install jekyll. Then, in the public folder, jekyll new blog. I then went into the newly created blog folder and modified _config.yml file to include:

source: .
destination: ../public/blog
baseurl: "/blog"

With these new additions, we now build our blog via jekyll build from our blog folder. This prepares the ember /public/blog directory, and we just use the aforementioned process to deploy the whole site.