Ginger Engineering Blog

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Preparation

To edit, preview and publish the blog, you should install the following:

Ruby Development Environment

• Ruby version 2.4.0 or above, including all development headers
• RubyGems (which you can check by running gem -v)
• GCC and Make (in case your system doesn’t have them installed, which you can check by running gcc -v,g++ -v and make -v in your system’s command line interface)

Tooling

• Install Jekyll

Checkout the jekyll branch for development. The master branch is the published site.

Edit Cycle

See Jekyll posts for details on how to add a new post.

Run jekyll serve to build the site and serve it locally.

Publishing

0. You should checkout this branch (jekyll) in a directory called ginger-blog.
1. Checkout the master branch of this repository in a sibling directory ../ginger-io.github.io
2. Run build.sh to generate the static site and sync it with ../ginger-io.github.io
3. Go in ../ginger-io.github.io, review changes, perform the necessary git add, git rm, etc, and then git commit and git push your changes.