Set up

Use a terminal to do the following commands

• Mac:

  • Applications->Utilities->Terminal.app

  • or use Spotlight: ⌘-Space, and type in Terminal

• Windows:

  • Use git bash

1. Clone the repo

   $ git clone https://github.com/scholarslab/praxis

2. Install gems and other software (OS X only; Windows users find us)

• Go into the praxis directory

  $ cd praxis

• And run bundle. This will install the Ruby gems needed, including Jekyll.

  $ bundle

• Install a syntax highlighter, the Python package Pygments

  $ easy_install Pygments

• Install the Nodejs application, a web server for viewing changes on your machine.

  $ brew install node

  • and then

  $ npm install

  • and to install bower, a package manager for the web (basically, you run it to put together all of the files to make a website)

  npm install -g bower grunt-cli

  • and then install the things bower needs

  $ bower install

Add a New Post

There's a tool to help generating what you need for new posts:

$ rake new_post[post-type,"Title of your post"]
Creating new post file _posts/post-type/2015-09-24-title-of--your-post.md

This will create a new post file in the correct location with the needed header information.

Examples:

$ rake new_post[blog,"My Blog Post"]
$ rake new_post[memo,"My Memo"]
$ rake new_post[meeting-note,"My Meeting Note"]

You can check on what was generated with:

$ git status

Run locally

New Way

Let grunt do the heavy lifting:

$ grunt

Old Way

Foreman is a program that starts all of the other programs (web server, compilers, etc) that need to run for you to run the site locally.

In this case, it is starting Jekyll's built in web server and a program call compass that will watch for any changes in files, and update the Jekyll web server.

$ foreman start

Development

Edit files, see the changes happen in real time

Best practice is to make your own branch, make changes there, and then merge them into the main branch when done.

• Create a new branch

git branch my_awesome_branch

• Edit your files, and then add and commit them.

git add filename

a shortcut to add all of the files you changed is to replace the filenames with a period

git add .

and then commit

git commit -m "A good message here"

Deployment

Once you are done making changes on your local computer, you can push them up to the server

git checkout gh-pages
git merge my_awesome_branch
git push