Moving To GitHub And Jekyll

11 Jan 2014

If you’ve checked out my About page you’ll have seen a bit of the history surrounding this site. I case you haven’t what are you waiting for?

Anyway I’ve flirted with various hosting solutions but lately I’d been using Scriptogram. Coupled with Dropbox and Markdown it was very easy to use. But I’d noticed the distinct absence of any real activity on the site for a few months - their support pages have been down for a while - although I believe there was some active on Twitter (I don’t use it myself - I just don’t get Twitter, it’s a load of bollocks). My site was still up and I could still access the admin. pages but I started to think about moving the site to something more active.

And up stepped GitHub and Jekyll.

With a little bit of assistance (see links below) I was able to configure Ruby and Jekyll locally on my Windows 7 Laptop which made a massive difference when developing the site.

However as with many Windows ports of Linux based configurations there were a few issues that cropped up. One in particular which wasn’t covered in any of the above posts.

C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require’: cannot load such file – wdm (LoadError)

The solution - gem install wdm

So far I am very impressed. I’ve tried to keep everything simple so no plugins and fancy Liquid coding but that may come later.