Bala Raman personal web site.

How to build

Requirements:

• Git
• Jekyll

Steps:

• create a local clone of this repository (with git clone https://github.com/srbala/srbala.github.io.git)
• go to project's folder (with cd srbala.github.io)
• make some modifications (see below sections)
• test on your computer the modifications (see below sections)
• commit and push the modifications on github

Install Jekyll

• Linux
• Windows

Create new page

We are using jekyll-docs-template to generate the site. This is a customized Jekyll project template optimized for flexible, multi-page documentation.

The template follows a very simple convention of defining categories that correspond to sections in the navigation. Here are the default ones (they are listed in the _config.yml):

• doc - Documentation
• ref - Reference
• tut - Tutorial
• dev - Developers
• post - Posts

Since Jekyll is more geared towards blog posts, specifiying a date and setting up the front-matter can get tedious. Supplied in the bin directory is a simple Ruby scripy for creating a new page:

./bin/jekyll-page title category [filename] [--edit]

where title is the title of page, category is one of the categories defined in the _config.yml. By default the filename will be derived from the title, but you can specify an explicit filename (without the date) by passing the third agument. Finally the --edit (or just -e) will launch the editor defined by the $EDITOR environment variable.

Example:

./bin/jekyll-page "My New Page" ref

Will produce a file _posts/2013-06-05-my-new-page.md with the front-matter already defined:

---
layout: page
title: "My New Page"
category: ref
date: 2013-06-05 12:00:00
---

Simply add an order attribute to the front-matter of the page and the navigation links will be sorted accordingly (within it's section).

---
layout: page
title: "My New Page"
category: ref
date: 2013-06-05 12:00:00
order: 1
---

For convenience, a new directory will be created called _pages which contains symlinks to the posts without the data prefix, e.g. 2013-04-13-foo.md → foo.md. This makes it a tad easier when opening files to edit.

Edit page

Go to pages folder and edit the desired file with your favourite text editor.

Start the server

Start the server with: jekyll serve --watch
Open local site with: http://localhost:4000