Monsanto Engineering Blog

Function

This is the engineering blog of Monsanto engineers, where we’ll share ideas we have, open source software we use and have created. Watch this space for future articles.

New Posts

To contribute a new post, Monsanto engineers should fork the engineering-blog repo, clone the fork, create a branch from develop, create your new post in the _posts directory, check it in, push it, create a pull request from your new branch into develop on the main version. After the PR is submitted it will go through the approval process. Thanks

Usage and development

• Our engineering blog is built by Jekyll, so to work on it first install Jekyll. If you already have Ruby and RubyGems installed, this could be as easy as

  gem install jekyll --version '2.5.3'
  

  If you need to install those first, check out the install documentation for Jekyll. You may also want to look at rbenv.

• Fork the https://github.com/MonsantoCo/engineering-blog project using the Fork button in the top-right corner of its web page.

• Next, checkout your fork of the site code

  git clone git@github.com:YOUR_USER/engineering-blog.git
  

  replacing YOUR_USER with your GitHub user name.

• Change into the downloaded repository

  cd engineering-blog
  

• Create a new post

  Copy one of the exsting posts, and make some changes.

  cp _posts/2015-01-22-stoop-our-first-open-source-release.md _posts/2015-04-01-this-is-a-new-post.md
  vi _posts/2015-04-01-this-is-a-new-post.md
  

  Again, be sure to update the 'frontmatter', that's the code between the --- marks. Their functions are self-explanitory. After that build the site with Jekyll (see below) to see how it looks.

• Create a new page

  If you're starting with html copy one of the exsting pages, for example about.html and make some changes

  cp about.html new_page.html
  vi new_page.html
  

  Be sure to update the 'frontmatter', that's the code between the --- marks. Their functions are self-explanitory. After that build the site with Jekyll (see below) to see how it looks.

• Build and server the site with Jekyll

  jekyll s
  

  Then you can view the site point your browser to http://localhost:4000/

• Once you are done editing, add, commit and push the changes to GitHub

  git add .
  git commit -m "This is what I did to the code"
  git push
  

• Finally, go to the web page for your repo and create a pull request into the develop branch of the MonsantoCo/engineering-blog. Once submitted your PR will be reviewed and posted publicly.

Push to production

You can just use the update_prod.sh script.

bash update_prod.sh

You will get an email warning you about the CNAME setting for the site that you can safely ignore.

Reload the site in a browser and enjoy!

Questions?

Feel free to reach out on our Contact page or open an issue for us to fix. As always, pull requests are welcome!

License

Copyright (c) 2015, MonsantoCo All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

• Neither the name of engineering-blog nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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