Can't start local jekyll server

[dlin303]

• I believe this to be a bug, not a question about using Jekyll.
• I Updated to the latest Jekyll (or) if on Github Pages to the latest github-pages
• I Read the CONTRIBUTION file at https://jekyllrb.com/docs/contributing/
• This is a feature request.

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• I am on (or have tested on) _macOS_ 10+
• I am on (or have tested on) _Debian/Ubuntu_ GNU/Linux
• I am on (or have tested on) _Fedora_ GNU/Linux
• I am on (or have tested on) _Arch_ GNU/Linux
• I am on (or have tested on) _Other_ GNU/Linux
• I am on (or have tested on) _Windows_ 10+

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• I was trying to install.
• There is a broken Plugin API.
• I had an error on Github Pages, and I have not tested locally.
• I had an error on Github Pages, and Github Support said it was a Jekyll Bug.
• I had an error on Github Pages and I did not test it locally.
• I was trying to build.
• It was another bug.

My Reproduction Steps

Did a fresh gem install of jekyll 3.2.0 and tried to serve it

$ gem install jekyll
$ jekyll new testblog
$ cd testblog
$ jekyll serve

Got this error:

Configuration file: /Users/Daron/Development/testblog/_config.yml
            Source: /Users/Daron/Development/testblog
       Destination: /Users/Daron/Development/testblog/_site
 Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
      Generating...
     Build Warning: Layout 'post' requested in _posts/2016-07-28-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown does not exist.
  Liquid Exception: no implicit conversion of nil into String in about.md
jekyll 3.2.0 | Error:  no implicit conversion of nil into String

The Output I Wanted

But if i gem uninstall jekyll and reinstall v3.1.6 gem install jekyll -v 3.1.6, everything works fine.

$ rm -rf testblog
$ gem uninstall jekyll
$ gem install jekyll -v 3.1.6
$ jekyll new testblog
$ cd testblog
$ jekyll serve

I get what I expect:

Configuration file: /Users/Daron/Development/testblog/_config.yml
            Source: /Users/Daron/Development/testblog
       Destination: /Users/Daron/Development/testblog/_site
 Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
      Generating...
                    done in 0.646 seconds.
 Auto-regeneration: enabled for '/Users/Daron/Development/testblog'
Configuration file: /Users/Daron/Development/testblog/_config.yml
    Server address: http://127.0.0.1:4000/
  Server running... press ctrl-c to stop.

I'm completely new to jekyll, but wanted to give you all the headsup in case there's something wrong with latest 3.2.0 release since it's only 4 hours old.

[envygeeks]

Hi @dlin303,

Can you please re-run your command with --trace so that we can trace a regression path. Thanks!

[ruisaraiva19]

I have the same problem...

[ryanapil]

+1

[Crunch09]

@envygeeks theme.includes_path is nil at this point which results in the error. I think the cause of the problem is that the _layouts, _includes and _sass directory of minima are excluded in the .gemspec. I'll send a PR to add them!

[sasivarnan]

I am still facing this issue. Any idea?

[Crunch09]

There needs to be a new release of minima before this will be fixed for
everyone.

Edit: I just saw @parkr already released a new version. @sasivarnan Can you do an bundle update minima in your site's directory? This should solve your issue.

[sasivarnan]

@Crunch09 Thanks for the reply.

For now, I downloaded the jekyll/minima repo and placed the files inside my site directory.

Now I am facing #4677 Issue.

[benbalter]

I'm still getting this issue, even with v1.0.1 of minima.

I've traced the problem to the fact that Theme#path_for always returns nil for Gem-distributed themes, because Jekyll.sanitized_path double-prepends the root resulting in an root + root + path, which is an invalid file.

[Crunch09]

Somehow i can't reproduce it, if i put an puts "PATH: #{path}" after this line i get:

[benbalter]

Digging deeper, it looks like it's only going to affect symlinked gems, which in my case, is the default for rbenv/homebrew.

Edit: Should have a fix momentarily.