To build the website locally, clone the repo and change into the repo's directory.
git clone https://github.com/blab/blotter.git
cd blotter/
Install the latest version of Ruby supported by blotter using rbenv to work around any system-wide Ruby installations that may be incompatible.
rbenv installCheck that gem is available through the rbenv installation.
If it is not, consult the rbenv documentation above to resolve the issue.
which gemInstall bundler.
gem install bundlerInstall blotter's Ruby dependencies.
bundle installBuild the site.
bundle exec jekyll build
Important
If you are getting errors at this stage, it may be due to your version of bundle.
Try gem uninstall bundler + gem install bundler -v 1.13.1.
Start a local Jekyll server to view the site.
bundle exec jekyll serveOpen your browser to http://localhost:4000/. More information on Jekyll can be found here.
To include projects, preprocessing scripts are necessary to clone project repos and update Jekyll metadata. This can be accomplished with:
ruby _scripts/update-and-preprocess.rb
Then jekyll build works as normal.
Blog posts just require YAML top matter that looks something like:
---
layout: post
title: Newton Institute presentation
author: Trevor Bedford
link: http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/IDD/seminars/2013082213301.html
image: /images/blog/transmission.png
---
The layout, title and author tags are required, while link and image are optional. Just save a Markdown file with this top matter as something like blog/_posts/2013-08-27-newton-institute.md, where 2013-08-27 is the date of the post and newton-institute is the short title. This short title is used in the URL of the post, so this becomes blog/newton-institute/, so the short title should be long enough and unique enough not to cause conflicts with other posts.
- Look over the metadata format guide
- Look over the Markdown style guide
All source code in this repository, consisting of files with extensions .html, .css, .less, .rb or .js, is freely available under an MIT license, unless otherwise noted within a file. You're welcome to borrow / repurpose code to build your own site, but I would very much appreciate attribution and a link back to bedford.io from your about page.
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