Workspace setup

• To reduce pain, set up rbenv to manage your Ruby versions. Install one that's known to work:

  make ruby
  

  • Otherwise, make sure you have Ruby and Bundler set up.

• Install dependencies:

  make deps
  

• Make sure builds are working:

  make build
  

Development

• Build the website and serve it at http://localhost:4000/blog/:

  make serve
  

  • It will pick up changes and reload pages automatically.

Upgrading dependencies

• To upgrade dependencies in Gemfile.lock & push them to the repository:

  make maintenance
  

• Manually upgrade dependencies in Gemfile.lock:

  bundle update
  

Building static pages

If you try to copy the _site directory and open index.html without running the web server, it won't work: all links will be messed up. Jekyll doesn't provide native support for generating a static website which can be browsed without running a web server.

One workaround is to wget the website:

make serve LIVE_RELOAD=0    # Live reloading breaks wget
make wget

The truly static version will be downloaded to the .wget/ directory.