Originally published at 狗和留美者不得入内. You can comment here or there.
Now that I am blogging about programming, I’ve figured that I should start a separate blog just for that, which I can showcase to others without the risk of political incorrectness (which of course requires I keep it strictly technical). I had thought of blogspot, but the pros use github.io. So I naturally looked into that. And I’ve decided that I’m going to document the process as I go.
First, I found that the version of ruby on my mac was not to date, so I used rbenv to install a sufficiently up to date version. However,
ruby -v
did not change though almost certainly, the later version was installed. Annoying, it meant that I had to point the ruby bash command to the newly installed executable either directly or indirectly. I had done this shit quite a while ago, and now it recycles, just like every time you start a new tech job, you have to go through a not terribly fun setup process. Fortunately, switching to rvm did the trick.
See, I had created on my github a repository for my github.io page, selected a theme (kind of like a WordPress theme), and git cloned that to my local machine. But when I, per instructions here, run
bundle exec jekyll serve
it complains
jekyll 3.8.3 | Error: The jekyll-theme-cayman theme could not be found.
So I decide to start all over with
jekyll new . --force
Now when I ls the directory, I get
404.html Gemfile Gemfile.lock _config.yml _posts about.md index.md
Running again
bundle exec jekyll serve
gives me
Configuration file: cwdir/_config.yml
Source: cwdir/me.github.io
Destination: cwdir/_site
Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
Generating...
done in 1.555 seconds.
Auto-regeneration: enabled for me.github.io'
Server address: http://127.0.0.1:4000/
Server running... press ctrl-c to stop.
Going there gives me
And now I git commit and push to GitHub and see it at the actual hosted page!
