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  • Quick Notes on Ruby and Jekyll

    Quick Notes on Ruby and Jekyll

    I feel like I should be writing about Once Upon A Time at this point…

    Let’s take a moment to talk about our stack here.

    • Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, object-oriented, general-purpose programming language.
    • Ruby libraries are bundled into gems.
    • Jekyll is a gem that can publish static websites.
    • Bundler lets you list all your dependencies required for the project you’re working on.
    • A Gemfile is a file in which we can list gems for the aforementioned dependencies.

    Still with me?

    This matters because you can use a Gemfile to define your standard libraries for a Jekyll site. The general idea is that you install Bundler:

    $ gem install bundler

    Then you make a Gemfile in your Jekyll folder:

    source 'https://rubygems.org'
    
    gem 'jekyll', '>= 3.0.0.pre.beta9'
    gem 'jekyll-oembed', :require => 'jekyll_oembed'
    gem 'jekyll-last-modified-at', :require => 'jekyll-last-modified-at'
    

    What this does is it defines what version of Jekyll I want to use and some of the gems I want to use. For example, if I wanted to add Jekyll Compose to all the users of my Git repository, I would add this:

    group :jekyll_plugins do
      gem 'jekyll_compose'
    end
    

    Now all they have to do is run bundle after their git pull, and they get the new requirement.