Developing the website with Gitpod

Gitpod provides a pre-configured environment and text editor in the browser. Developers can quickly jump into making changes without worrying about how to install the correct version of Ruby and Jekyll. Developers can also live share the website preview while developing.

How to use Gitpod

1. Sign into GitHub
2. Visit https://gitpod.io and log in with GitHub
3. Grant Gitpod user:email permissions on your GitHub account
4. Allow pushing commits in Gitpod

• Visit https://gitpod.io/integrations
• Under "Git Providers", hover over GitHub and open the menu to "Edit Permissions"
• Check "public_repo" for "Write access to code in public repositories and organizations"
• Click "Update Permissions" and proceed to grant the permissions in GitHub

5. Open your Gitpod workspace with this link
6. Wait for Gitpod to load your workspace. This may take 5 minutes.
7. When the jekyll serve finishes building, Gitpod will open a new tab with the preview of your website
8. Make changes. Commit and push changes.
9. Create a pull request!