The tech blog for Crowd Interactive
Clone the repo
git clone git@github.com:crowdint/blog.crowdint.com.git
Bundler, install the gem:
gem install bundler
Then use bundler to install everything else:
bundle install
Create a file in the _post folder following the permalink convention YYYY-MM-DD-title-of-the-post.markdown or YYYY-MM-DD-title-of-the-post.textile
Yau can use either Markdown or Textile to write the posts. Just specify the format as the extension of the file.
The following header must be included at the very top of your post.
---
layout: post
title: About Crowd Interactive
author: The Author Name
email: author@crowdint.com
avatar: d32b52ec6403614b1adf3e648cbbe584
short_date: Jun 01
---
You can create your avatar using Gravatar. Then go to the "Check this Gravatar" section and copy the Email Hash and include it on your header:
avatar: a59cda5de705716cbd18195a4dd68a56
To test how your post looks, you can run the jekyll server locally:
jekyll --server --auto
And then, go to http://127.0.0.1:4000 and check how the blog will look.
The --auto option will make jekyll update the server automatically every time a file on the blog changes.
Commit the changes, preferably in your own branch and then, let the blog maintainers know that you're ready to be published.
If you get something like this:
..../rdiscount-1.6.5/lib/rdiscount.bundle: [BUG] Segmentation fault
You will have to reinstall rdiscount gem manually, it will compile it with the correct platform
You might want to install Pygments to configure your syntax highlighting, so you can try this (depending on your OS):
On OSX with MacPorts:
sudo port install python25 py25-pygments
Alternatively on OS X Leopard:
sudo easy_install Pygments
On Archlinux:
sudo pacman -S pygments
On Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install python-pygments
On Gentoo:
sudo emerge -av dev-python/pygments
On Windows(?):
Are you using Windows???... Seriously.