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This repository for our website has been archived, and all issues are therefore frozen. If you want to contribute, propose a new feature and/or report a bug with the blog, please head over to the new repository https://github.com/JabRef/JabRefOnline.

JabRef's blog

This repository contains the source of the JabRef blog.

Feel free to send blog entries. Find details in our CONTRIBUTING.md file.

The layout is based on github.com/t413/SinglePaged. We use jekyll as static site generator. See GitHub pages for more details on the mechanics behnd.

Testing the blog entry

Execute bundle exec jekyll serve to serve this page locally at http://localhost:4000/.

For running htmlproof, execute these two commands:

bundle exec jekyll build
bundle exec htmlproof ./_site

Installation

Source: https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-with-pages/#installing-jekyll

1. Install Ruby by using the RubyInstaller or choco install ruby
2. Install the Development Kit (or by choco install ruby2.devkit)
3. gem install bundler
4. bundle install

Note that JRuby doesn't work as the C extensions were dropped.

htmlproof

On Windows, you have to do following steps to let htmlproof work.

• Download libcurl https://curl.haxx.se/download.html. Current version: http://curl.haxx.se/gknw.net/7.40.0/dist-w32/renamed-curl-7.40.0-devel-mingw32.zip
• Extract subfolder curl-7.40.0-devel-mingw32 into c:\temp
• Exec SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\temp\curl-7.40.0-devel-mingw32\bin

Updating jekyll

You can update your jekyll instance using bundle update. This might be necessary because of the update to Jekyll 3.0 by GitHub.