BlaBlaCar's Tech Blog — all BlaBlaCar Techies are invited to participate :)
We use Jekyll for the blog, an easy-to-use way of transform plain text into blogs posts. Posts are written in markdown, it could not be easier!
- You need a local webserver in order to run and test the blog
- Clone gh-pages on your machine and configure your localhost accordingly
- Install Jekyll and the required plugins
$ gem install jekyll
$ gem install jekyll-redirect-from
$ gem install jekyll-paginate
$ gem install rdiscount
- Then, launch it locally with build / serve:
$ jekyll build
$ jekyll serve
- Warning: commits to gh-pages are immediately live
- Add new authors in the
_config.yml, it's as easy as this - Posts are written in Markdown, can it be any easier?
- Posts (.md files) are to be saved in
_posts, with the following format:2011-12-31-new-years-eve-is-awesome.md - Posts should be tagged, for instance "Culture", "Tech", "Conference", ...
- Images that belong to a post go into
images, prefixed with the posts's date (e.g.2011-12-31-happy.png) - Drafts should end up in the folder
_draft, without a prefixed date (e.g.new-years-eve-is-awesome.md) - If you create a new tag you also need to create the according html file in blog/tag to have a working archive
- Use the _drafts folder to prepare your post before publishing
jekyll serve --drafts