`expand_path': user lambdas.json doesn't exist

[miguelmota]

Hey guys, I have no idea why I'm getting this error.
Nowhere does lambdas.json exist in my repo:

$ find ./ -name "lambdas.json" 
(empty)
$ grep -nrHoEa "lambdas.json" ./
(empty)

I get that error when trying to start the server:

$ jekyll serve --trace --verbose 
Configuration file: /Users/moogs/Dropbox/Development/workspace/miguelmota.github.com/_config.yml
            Source: /Users/moogs/Dropbox/Development/workspace/miguelmota.github.com
       Destination: /Users/moogs/Dropbox/Development/workspace/miguelmota.github.com/_site
 Incremental build: enabled
      Generating... 
/Users/moogs/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.0-preview1/gems/jekyll-3.0.0.pre.beta1/lib/jekyll.rb:150:in `expand_path': user lambdas.json doesn't ex
ist (ArgumentError)
        from /Users/moogs/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.0-preview1/gems/jekyll-3.0.0.pre.beta1/lib/jekyll.rb:150:in `sanitized_path'
        from /Users/moogs/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.0-preview1/gems/jekyll-3.0.0.pre.beta1/lib/jekyll/site.rb:108:in `block in in_source_dir'
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        from /Users/moogs/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.0-preview1/gems/jekyll-3.0.0.pre.beta1/lib/jekyll/site.rb:107:in `in_source_dir'
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[pathawks]

When I try to build you're site on my machine, I don't get that error, but I notice a couple others.

• _layouts/blog.html Line 36 & 58 should be {% if %} rather than {{ if }}
• You have permalinks setup as /:categories/:title, but you have folders containing static files that collide with those permalinks (ie: /blog/basic-html5-audio-manipulation/, blog/css3-filters, etc.)
• Deprecation: The 'pygments' configuration option has been renamed to 'highlighter'. Please update your config file accordingly. The allowed values are 'rouge', 'pygments' or null.

When I fixed those things, the site built for me no problem.

[parkr]

Thanks, @pathawks :)

[miguelmota]

@pathawks thanks for looking into it but I made the changes locally and still getting the same error. I had to downgrade all the way down to what I had originally, 1.5.1, to get to run.

[pathawks]

I was running the beta of Jekyll 3. Tried with safe mode both off and on.

How are you building the site? jekyll serve?
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@pathawks https://github.com/pathawks thanks for looking into it but I
made the changes locally and still getting the same error. I had to
downgrade all the way down to what I had originally, 1.5.1, to get to
run.

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[miguelmota]

After much trial and error I found out that if I excluded the /vendor directory the error would go away and the site would serve and build. I'm redoing the site so I'm not too worried about what's in that directory.

exclude: [vendor]

I was getting the permalink error that you mentioned because directories exist with the same category name but I didn't want to rewrite my permalinks so I simply fixed it by adding a forward slash / at the end of :title.

permalink: /:categories/:title/

No more errors and site functions exactly as it did before.

[EvanLovely]

It has something to do with Twitter Bootstrap's dependency on hogan.js for it's docs. Deleting that folder gets past the build error; that's why excluding it fixed it for you (had this issue myself).

[parkr]

It has something to do with Twitter Bootstrap's dependency on hogan.js for it's docs.

Curses, @sayrer!! 😉 Glad you got it all figured out, @EvanLovely. Thanks for writing back with your findings!