Commit b7f5adba authored by Douwe Maan's avatar Douwe Maan

Add documentation

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![Environment URLs in merge request](img/environments_link_url_mr.png)
### Go directly from source files to public pages on the environment
To go one step further, we can specify a Route Map to get GitLab to show us "View on [environment URL]" buttons to go directly from a file to that file's representation on the deployed website. It will be exposed in a few places:
| In the diff for a merge request, comparison or commit | In the file view |
| ------ | ------ |
| !["View on env" button in merge request diff](img/view_on_env_mr.png) | !["View on env" button in file view](img/view_on_env_blob.png) |
To get this to work, you need to tell GitLab how the paths of files in your repository map to paths of pages on your website, using a so-called Route Map.
The Route Map is a file inside the repository at `.gitlab/route-map.yml`, that contains a YAML array that maps `source` paths (in the repository) to `public` paths (on the website).
This is an example of a route map for [Middleman](https://middlemanapp.com) static websites like [http://about.gitlab.com](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com):
```yaml
# Blogposts
- source: /source\/posts\/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})-(.+?)\..*/ # source/posts/2017-01-30-around-the-world-in-6-releases.html.md.erb
public: '\1/\2/\3/\4/' # 2017/01/30/around-the-world-in-6-releases/
# HTML files
- source: /source\/(.+?\.html).*/ # source/index.html.haml
public: '\1' # index.html
# Other files
- source: /source\/(.*)/ # source/images/blogimages/around-the-world-in-6-releases-cover.png
public: '\1' # images/blogimages/around-the-world-in-6-releases-cover.png
```
Mappings are defined as entries in the root YAML array, and are identified by a `-` prefix. Within an entry, we have a hash map with two keys:
- `source`: a regular expression, starting and ending with `/`. Can include capture groups denoted by `()` that can be referred to in the `public` path. Slashes (`/`) can, but don't have to be, escaped as `\/`.
- `public`: a string, starting and ending with `'`. Can include `\N` expressions to refer to capture groups in the `source` regular expression in order of their occurence, starting with `\1`.
The public path for a source path is determined by finding the first `source` expression that matches it, and returning the corresponding `public` path, replacing the `\N` expressions with the values of the `()` capture groups.
In the example above, the fact that mappings are evaluated in order of their definition is used to ensure that `source/index.html.haml` will match `/source\/(.+?\.html).*/` instead of `/source\/(.*)/`, and will result in a public path of `index.html`, instead of `index.html.haml`.
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We now have a full development cycle, where our app is tested, built, deployed
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