Chris Jacob's Blog

Just changed my Twitter username... From @i_chris_jacob To @_chrisjacob

Some great tips on what to do when you change your twitter username and be found here:

http://www.labnol.org/internet/change-twitter-handle-name/13688/

I think I made my move pritty obvious on @i_chris_jacob ^_^

Some random notes while installing and playing with Jekyll.

Install Jekyll gem:

https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/install

sudo gem install jekyll

> Successfully installed liquid-2.2.2
> Successfully installed fast-stemmer-1.0.0
> Successfully installed classifier-1.3.3
> Successfully installed directory_watcher-1.3.2
> Successfully installed syntax-1.0.0
> Successfully installed maruku-0.6.0
> Successfully installed jekyll-0.10.0

Yippy!

Install RDiscount:

Because I may want to experiment with RDiscount (instead of Maruku) for markdown...

sudo gem install rdiscount

> Successfully installed rdiscount-1.6.8

Woot!

Install Pygments:

OS X Leopard:

sudo easy_install Pygments

> Searching for Pygments
> Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/Pygments/
> Reading http://pygments.org/
> Reading http://pygments.pocoo.org/
> Best match: Pygments 1.4
> Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/P/Pygments/Pygments-1.4-py2.6.egg#md5=306...
> Processing Pygments-1.4-py2.6.egg
creating /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/Pygments-1.4-py2.6.egg
> Extracting Pygments-1.4-py2.6.egg to /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages
> Adding Pygments 1.4 to easy-install.pth file
> Installing pygmentize script to /usr/local/bin

> Installed /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/Pygments-1.4-py2.6.egg
> Processing dependencies for Pygments
> Finished processing dependencies for Pygments

RAD!

Setup Git and push to GitHub:

Create  new repository on Github

mkdir jekyll-boilerplate

cd jekyll-boilerplate

git init

touch README.markdown

git add README.markdown

git commit -m 'first commit'

git remote add origin git@github.com:chrisjacob/jekyll-boilerplate.git

git push origin master

Progress!

Barebones Jekyll files to test gem is operational

Added some files from https://github.com/mojombo/mojombo.github.com and stripped it back to just what I needed to test that Jekyll was working. (think I might need to create a jekyll-barebones project so others can do the same more easily).

jekyll --server

> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:779:in `report_activate_error': Could not find RubyGem jekyll (>= 0) (Gem::LoadError)
>    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:214:in `activate'
>    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:1082:in `gem'
>    from /usr/local/bin/jekyll:18

EPIC FAIL!!!

... why!

gem list

... jekyll indeed was not listed. Ah ha! ... I was running RVM.

rvm system

... switches me back to the system install of ruby

gem list

... yay that's where my jekyll had gone. problem solved.

Pop open Firefox and hit up

http://localhost:4000/

WIN!

Pushing just the _sites/ content to gh-pages branch using Grancher

"Do a rake publish and the folder will be copied to the gh-pages branch, committed and pushed. Easy peasy"

http://timeless.judofyr.net/grancher

 sudo gem install grancher

> Successfully installed open4-0.9.6
> Successfully installed gash-0.1.3
> Successfully installed grancher-0.1.5

Links:

http://recursive-design.com/blog/2010/10/12/static-blogging-the-jekyll-way/

It's like Stack Overflow (Q&A) - but for like everything.

Linked it up with my Twitter account - so I'm instantly following lots of interesting devs - Win! :-)

So far I must say that Posterous ROCKS!