I get Liquid Exception: no implicit conversion of nil into String in about.md when I try to run the Quick-start example

[adam-arold]

• 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

I simply run the following commands from the Quick-start example page:

~ $ gem install jekyll
~ $ jekyll new myblog
~ $ cd myblog
~/myblog $ jekyll serve

I get the following error:

$ jekyll serve
Configuration file: E:/myblog/_config.yml
Source: E:/myblog
Destination: E://myblog/_site
Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
Generating...
Build Warning: Layout 'post' requested in _posts/2016-07-30-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

I wanted it to work.

[jake-low]

Hi @adam-arold,

I was unable to reproduce your issue using Jekyll 3.2.0 (the same version you're using) and minima 1.0.1. What versions of minima do you have? You can check using gem list.

[adam-arold]

I have minima (1.0.1). I tried with 64 bit Ruby and the 32bit version. I used the the Windows Ruby installer for installing Ruby. I also had to install bundler because Jekyll was not working and I figured out that I need to install it. I'm not a Ruby user and I think you should mention that people need to install bundler, minima, and other fluff in order to get this to work. I use Windows 8.1.

[jake-low]

I agree; the maintainers have two PRs (#5168 and #5169) open to address this. v3.2.0 just came out a couple days ago and the docs haven't quite caught up yet. Glad you figured it out!

[adam-arold]

I think the problem is that running the command which creates a new project is buggy because it did not create the necessary layout file thus:

Build Warning: Layout 'post' requested in _posts/2016-07-30-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown does not exist.

If I create a direcory named _layouts and put default.md page.md and post.md in it the problem is solved. But in this case I get another error:

jekyll 3.2.0 | Error: different prefix: "/" and "E:/my-awesome-site"

What could be the problem?

[adam-arold]

Related issue
Seems like this thing got broken since 3.1.6. I reverted from 3.2.0 to 3.1.6 and jekyll serve now works without problems. So these are actually two issues:

• The site generated by the jekyll new command is broken in 3.2.0
• In 3.2.0 Windows users can't get this to work because of Related issue

What should happen now? I'm fine with 3.1.6 but 3.2.0 needs to be fixed.

[jake-low]

3.2.1 will hopefully be out Monday and will solve these issues. (See #5159).

[parkr]

@adam-arold 3.2.1 should fix this for you! http://jekyllrb.com/news/2016/08/02/jekyll-3-2-1-released/

[sunny-chung]

Reproduced in 3.3.1.

 Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
      Generating... 
     Build Warning: Layout 'post' requested in _posts/2017-01-26-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown does not exist.
  Liquid Exception: no implicit conversion of nil into String in about.md
jekyll 3.3.1 | Error:  no implicit conversion of nil into String

[parkr]

@sunny-chung fixed by #5750. keep an eye out for 3.4.0.