Github Pages, Jekyll, Poole

16 May 2015

Two years have rolled by without a post to my blog at Scriptogram. Scriptogram is (was !) fun. The ease of use (markdown & dropbox) & the minimalism hooks you to it. Its not easy getting away from scriptogram - I dont want to & will not kill it. But the urge to experiment has been too much & here I come - with a lot of skepticism & fear.

The desire to take the Github leap was inspired by these posts;

15th May 2015

I spend hours breaking my head trying to come to terms with the dependencies. Ruby.. aaargh … 1 am … I’m off to bed.

16th May 2015

Pray. Take a deep breath. Plunge.

Install the following -

Ruby Installer http://dl.bintray.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/rubyinstaller-2.1.6.exe
Development Kit - http://dl.bintray.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/DevKit-mingw64-32-4.7.2-20130224-1151-sfx.exe

From git bash type gem install jekyll

And then we run into …

Fetching: fast-stemmer-1.0.2.gem (100%)
ERROR:  Error installing jekyll:
The 'fast-stemmer' native gem requires installed build tools.

Please update your PATH to include build tools or download the DevKit
from 'http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads' &amp; follow the instructions
at 'http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit'

So I add “C:/DevKit” to the PATH.

But same message again.

Okay I missed this. Should have done these before trying to install Jekyll;

cd C:DevKit
ruby dk.rb init

[INFO] found RubyInstaller v1.9.3 at C:/Ruby193 [INFO] found RubyInstaller v2.1.6 at C:/Ruby21

Initialization complete! Please review & modify the auto-generated 'config.yml' file to ensure it contains the root directories to all of the installed Rubies you want enhanced by the DevKit.`

Okay.. now run

ruby dk.rb install

But now we run into ..

[ERROR] Unable to find RubyGems in site_ruby or core Ruby. Please
install RubyGems &amp; rerun 'ruby dk.rb install'.

https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/630 saves me.

afffsdd ‘s casual remark - “But when I remove - C:/jruby-1.7.4 it goes along without a hitch,” - saves the day.

So, C:/Ruby193 in the config.yml file must be the problem.

Remove that entry.

Now run ruby dk.rb install

[INFO] Updating convenience notice gem override for 'C:/Ruby21'
[INFO] Installing 'C:/Ruby21/lib/ruby/site_ruby/devkit.rb'

Now lets try gem install jekyll

Yesssss !!!!!! Woohoo !!!

Now I go through the Jekyll docs to set up the blog. Uh oh … A huge lump in my throat. Its back to some loafing around in google & then you come across a precious jewel called poole. Poole saves you the trouble of doing the blog setup from scratch.

I download the repo as a zipped file from github - poole & copy the files to my github.io repo.

Fingers crossed …

$ jekyll serve
Configuration file: d:/richie-blog/richielionell.github.io/_config.yml
Source: d:/richie-blog/richielionell.github.io
   Destination: d:/richie-blog/richielionell.github.io/_site
  Generating...
done.

Brilliant !!!

Time to transfer my posts from Scriptogram & launch http://richielionell.github.io/