Game plan
:todo-lists:
- [✓] Read primer on Jekyll
- [✓] Read how Fedora should handle rubygems - What does bundler do?
- [○] Do it
Questions:
- Q: Do I really need to use the github recommended version of the gems?
- A: Should, or the site might look weird.
Jekyll with Github Pages
0) gem install jekyll bundler <– this is WRONG, all I have to do is
install bundler somehow.
1) Then I make a Gemfile, inside the rabbitear.github.io repo:
bundler init will make a simple Gemfile, then I can add to it:
gem "github-pages", "~> VERSION", group: :jekyll_plugins
Look up on the github jekyll dependences site the VERSION number,
which at the time was 211, at: https://pages.github.com/versions/
2) be in the repo and: bundler install this will install the correct
versions of things, because of the “github-pages” gem being in the
Gemfile.
3) Run it bundler exec jekyll serve, Site is served at
http://127.0.0.1:4000 by default, changes made
while the server is on, will automaticly be updated.
Configuration of Jekyll
Configuration happens in _config.yaml file. Ex of the file:
title: My Cute Jekyll Blog
email: me@mycutejekyllblog.com
description: >-
This is my cute jekyll blog. I post some awesome stuff every day.
baseurl: ""
url: "https://mycutejekyllblog.com"
twitter_username: MyCuteJekyllBlog
github_username: MyCuteJekyllBlog
When editing the config.yaml file, you MUST _restart the server.
Creating Posts in Jekyll
All posts have the filename format of YEAR-MONTH-DAY-title.md, ex:
2020-02-07-how-i-started-to-blog.md. All posts start with a yaml
syntax called Front Matter, code/text between three dashs, ex:
---
layout: post
title: Best Tools for Remote Teams
bestTool: SomeTool
---
Posts are to be put in the _posts directory. These are variables in jekyll, some are preexisting, others, you can make new, to use in your post. Every post must have a layout var. You can use the bestTool variable with:
instead the post.
SEE: https://talk.hyvor.com/blog/creating-a-static-site-blog-with-jekyll-and-github-pages/
Other Jekyll Things to Try
Privacy focused commenting: https://talk.hyvor.com/ nice blog on what’s all in jekyell: https://blog.webjeda.com/jekyll-guide/
Github Actions and Jekyll: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/continuous-integration/github-actions/ From gh marketplace: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/jekyll-actions