Jekyll serve --watch not recognizing and updating changes

[javirivera]

I recently set up my github pages for my new website and installed bundler gem through the terminal and the git-hub pages gem. Since then the jekyll serve --watch has not been updating when I make a change to my code.

Thanks in advence for any help.

[parkr]

Are you on Windows? Try --force_polling when you run jekyll serve --watch. What version of Jekyll and Listen are you using?

[javirivera]

I'm in OSX . Using jekyll 2.4.0 . And from a listen -v I could read that I have Listen 2.7.9 . How do I --force_poll?

[kleinfreund]

jekyll serve --force_polling

You don't need --watch, because watching is the default for serve since 2.4.0.

[javirivera]

Ah, alright. It Regenerates with --force_polling. So from now on I should run the jekyll serve with that instead of --watch?

Thanks for your prompt answers!

[parkr]

So from now on I should run the jekyll serve with that instead of --watch?

Only if you're using Jekyll 2.4 or later.

[parkr]

If you're on Mac OS X, it should all work.

[kleinfreund]

So from now on I should run the jekyll serve with that instead of --watch?

What is --force_polling for? Is this just some way to fix issues like this?

[parkr]

What is --force_polling for?

Force polling forces liquid to use the polling architecture rather than inotify. It's more CPU intensive than the latter.

[alfredxing]

Have you tried not using the github-pages gem? Try it with Jekyll 2.4.0 or HEAD and not through bundle.

[javirivera]

@alfredxing I have uninstalled the github-pages gem. Tried it with just jekyll serve --watch; with and without bundle, and it just doesnt regen.

I'm not sure I might've messed up something while I installed the bundler gems or set up my repo on github.
On a pleasant note: --force_polling has been working well for now, Thanks again.

[XhmikosR]

@parkr: is there an issue to track the force-polling workaround for Windows? I'm hitting this issue and force-polling fixes it; it happens when the output directory already exists before calling jekyll serve.

[parkr]

Check your exclude config variable as well.

[robotdana]

For future people coming across this.

this issue for me was related (I suspect) to this: guard/rb-fsevent#10

The case of a directory in the "Auto-regeneration: enabled for ..." line was different than it was in the finder.

Renaming the incorrect dir, then renaming back, fixed it. (other possible solutions are listed here: http://feedback.livereload.com/knowledgebase/articles/86239)

[LukeMcGurdy]

I was having the same issue (git-hub pages gem on Win10) but jekyll --incremental seemed to do the trick

[alexshyba]

This article helped me with similar issue on Win10 with Jekyll 3.3.0. See "May not work" part: https://labs.sverrirs.com/jekyll//5-wdm-gem.html

[iddan]

Updates do not work for me at all.
macOS 10.12.3
ruby 2.4.1
jekyll 3.4.3
using the github-pages gem and bundler

[wraybowling]

Auto-regeneration isn't working for me with

• macOS 10.12.3
• ruby 2.3.3
• jekyll 3.4.3
  not using the github-pages gem, and it doesn't seem to matter if I execute jekyll with bundler or not.

[ashmaroli]

@wraybowling jekyll-admin v0.4.1 has the auto-regeneration disabled internally. Disable the plugin if you're using that particular version..

[wraybowling]

@ashmaroli WOW. Gosh I hope you didn't spend too long figuring that out, but that did the trick. Thank you!

[ashmaroli]

I hope you didn't spend too long figuring that out

😃 I had encountered a similar issue on StackOverflow. So my first guess was on the plugin.. 😉

[rsmithlal]

the --force_polling option worked great for me using Docker on Windows

[mikekok]

I'm facing the same problem on Elementary OS (it's Ubuntu based).
Jekyll doesn't automatically update changes, I have to manually reload the page.

I've already tried the following, but nothing seems to work:

• Used --watch
• Used --force_polling
• Reinstalled the plugin through the _plugins folder
• Reinstalled the plugin using gem install
• Reinstalled the plugin using bundle install
• Checked if jekyll-admin is installed
• Generated a blank project

[ashmaroli]

@mikekok jekyll-admin no longer has that bug.. So that's not the issue.
You may need to "serve" your site with --livereload to have Jekyll refresh pages automatically.
If problems persist, please open a "new issue"