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| I run a patched 0.11.2 jekyll environment (patched posix-spawn) on my local win7 box because of | |
| breaking changes the devs made in the past that impact windows users. Hard to tell if they even | |
| tested on windows boxes before pushing. Perhaps things are different with the recent commit activity. | |
| And no time to confirm whether they're doing the right things for jekyll-on-windows users, or just | |
| hoping all the recent commits for all the dependencies Just Work. | |
| After a long hiatus, I just pushed a post (worked on my local 0.11.2 jekyll setup) about Go's | |
| fantastic cross-build capabilities and was rewarded with this exciting email from GH: | |
| Subject: [jonforums.github.com] Page build failure | |
| Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:50:50 -0700 | |
| The page build failed with the following error: | |
| page build failed | |
| For information on troubleshooting Jekyll see https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-with-pages#troubleshooting | |
| If you have any questions please contact GitHub Support. | |
| Amazing. The phrase you're searching for is...Can this be any less fk'n helpful!? | |
| Even though the Go post displayed perfectly on my local system, perhaps I did punt the syntax and | |
| it's my fault. But *no one* will ever know from that pathetic error message. | |
| Fine. Time to find out what new ways jekyll has found to break things on my windows box. Or discover | |
| I've got a really bad attitude toward jekyll. The help docs say GH is using jekyll `=0.12.0` so let's | |
| try a fresh install of the GH configuration: | |
| C:\>gem i jekyll --version 0.12.0 | |
| Fetching: liquid-2.5.0.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed liquid-2.5.0 | |
| Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit... | |
| Building native extensions. This could take a while... | |
| Successfully installed fast-stemmer-1.0.2 | |
| Fetching: classifier-1.3.3.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed classifier-1.3.3 | |
| Fetching: directory_watcher-1.5.1.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed directory_watcher-1.5.1 | |
| Fetching: syntax-1.0.0.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed syntax-1.0.0 | |
| Fetching: maruku-0.6.1.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed maruku-0.6.1 | |
| Fetching: kramdown-0.13.8.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed kramdown-0.13.8 | |
| Fetching: yajl-ruby-1.1.0-x86-mingw32.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed yajl-ruby-1.1.0-x86-mingw32 | |
| Fetching: posix-spawn-0.3.6.gem (100%) | |
| Building native extensions. This could take a while... | |
| Successfully installed posix-spawn-0.3.6 | |
| Fetching: pygments.rb-0.3.7.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed pygments.rb-0.3.7 | |
| Fetching: jekyll-0.12.0.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed jekyll-0.12.0 | |
| 11 gems installed | |
| Great, no install errors. I know, I know, you're asking the same questions I am like | |
| "11 gems to install to get jekyll working?" and "What's this posix-spawn gem doing getting | |
| installed on my windows box?" | |
| But no matter, lets test out the new post and find out what's wrong | |
| C:\Users\Jon\Documents\WebDev\jonforums.github.com>jekyll --server 8080 | |
| C:/ruby200/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in `require': cannot load such file -- yajl/2.0/yajl (LoadError) | |
| from C:/ruby200/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in `require' | |
| from C:/ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/yajl-ruby-1.1.0-x86-mingw32/lib/yajl/yajl.rb:2:in `<top (required)>' | |
| Great, jekyll'd again! Well not quite. Did you catch the real error? It's our good friend yajl-ruby | |
| choking on ruby 2.0.0 on windows because it's binary gem only provides 1.8 and 1.9 pieces and | |
| hasn't yet upgraded to support 2.0.0. | |
| OK, another time wasting setup when I-JUST-WANTED-TO-PUSH-A-SIMPLE-POST. Dammit. | |
| Breathe.... | |
| I don't want to pollute my ruby 1.9.3 install (with patched jekyll 0.11.2 env) by trying to install | |
| jekyll 0.12.0, so let's try this: | |
| C:\>gem i yajl-ruby --platform=ruby | |
| Fetching: yajl-ruby-1.1.0.gem (100%) | |
| Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit... | |
| Building native extensions. This could take a while... | |
| Successfully installed yajl-ruby-1.1.0 | |
| 1 gem installed | |
| C:\Users\Jon\Documents\WebDev\jonforums.github.com>jekyll --safe --server 8080 | |
| Configuration from C:/Users/Jon/Documents/WebDev/jonforums.github.com/_config.yml | |
| Building site: C:/Users/Jon/Documents/WebDev/jonforums.github.com -> C:/Users/Jon/Document | |
| s/WebDev/jonforums.github.com/_site | |
| Successfully generated site: C:/Users/Jon/Documents/WebDev/jonforums.github.com -> C:/User | |
| s/Jon/Documents/WebDev/jonforums.github.com/_site | |
| [2013-04-24 18:59:02] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1 | |
| [2013-04-24 18:59:02] INFO ruby 2.0.0 (2013-04-23) [i386-mingw32] | |
| [2013-04-24 18:59:02] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=1332 port=8080 | |
| Red - - [24/Apr/2013:19:06:35 Eastern Daylight Time] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 133919 - -> / | |
| Red - - [24/Apr/2013:19:06:36 Eastern Daylight Time] "GET /css/syntax.css HTTP/1.1" 200 3264 | |
| http://localhost:8080/ -> /css/syntax.css | |
| ... | |
| OK, this looks about right and the page displayed correctly. So why is GH failing to build? Do I | |
| have a file in my local repo that didn't get committed to my GH repo? Something else? | |
| C:\>gem out | |
| jekyll (0.12.0 < 0.12.1) | |
| pygments.rb (0.3.7 < 0.5.0) | |
| Let's bump jekyll and friends to the latest versions and try again. Perhaps the GH doco is outdated | |
| and GH is running with jekyll 0.12.1 and newer friends and things are failing. | |
| C:\>gem up jekyll pygments.rb | |
| Updating installed gems | |
| Updating jekyll | |
| Fetching: kramdown-0.14.2.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed kramdown-0.14.2 | |
| Fetching: jekyll-0.12.1.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed jekyll-0.12.1 | |
| Updating pygments.rb | |
| Fetching: pygments.rb-0.5.0.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed pygments.rb-0.5.0 | |
| Gems updated: kramdown jekyll pygments.rb | |
| C:\>gem clean | |
| Cleaning up installed gems... | |
| Attempting to uninstall jekyll-0.12.0 | |
| Successfully uninstalled jekyll-0.12.0 | |
| Attempting to uninstall kramdown-0.13.8 | |
| Successfully uninstalled kramdown-0.13.8 | |
| Clean Up Complete | |
| Survey says!? | |
| C:\Users\Jon\Documents\WebDev\jonforums.github.com>jekyll --version | |
| Jekyll 0.12.1 | |
| C:\Users\Jon\Documents\WebDev\jonforums.github.com>jekyll --safe --server 8080 | |
| Configuration from C:/Users/Jon/Documents/WebDev/jonforums.github.com/_config.yml | |
| Building site: C:/Users/Jon/Documents/WebDev/jonforums.github.com -> C:/Users/Jon/Documents/WebDev/jonforums.github.com/_site | |
| Successfully generated site: C:/Users/Jon/Documents/WebDev/jonforums.github.com -> C:/Users/Jon/Documents/WebDev/jonforums.github.com/_site | |
| [2013-04-24 19:49:50] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1 | |
| [2013-04-24 19:49:50] INFO ruby 2.0.0 (2013-04-23) [i386-mingw32] | |
| [2013-04-24 19:49:50] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=2756 port=8080 | |
| Red - - [24/Apr/2013:19:50:01 Eastern Daylight Time] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 133919- -> | |
| Nope. All runs well and looks well with the latest gems on Win7 32-bit with ruby 2.0.0p158. | |
| Where do things currently stand? | |
| 1. Jekyll on GH is failing to build my latest post. | |
| 2. GH page build failure notices are unhelpful in this case. | |
| 3. My latest post builds fine on win7 32-bit with the following rubies: | |
| * 1.9.3p415: jekyll 0.11.2 + patched posix-spawn | |
| * 2.0.0p158: jekyll 0.12.0 | |
| * 2.0.0p158: jekyll 0.12.1 | |
| 4. The issue appears to have nothing to do with jekyll on windows and I'm likely to | |
| have to eat some crow suggesting Team Jekyll isn't paying attention to the windows | |
| platform. If they're not testing on windows, they're getting extremely lucky ;) | |
| Is GH testing jekyll 1.0.0.rc1 and my post is crashing the build? Who knows, I'll try it later. | |
| Time to call in the gurus at support@github.com | |
| While the GH gurus are taking a look at things, let's check out jekyll 1.0.0.rc1 shall we... | |
| C:\Users\Jon\Documents>gem i jekyll --pre | |
| Fetching: directory_watcher-1.4.1.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed directory_watcher-1.4.1 | |
| Fetching: pygments.rb-0.4.2.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed pygments.rb-0.4.2 | |
| Fetching: highline-1.6.18.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed highline-1.6.18 | |
| Fetching: commander-4.1.3.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed commander-4.1.3 | |
| Fetching: safe_yaml-0.7.1.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed safe_yaml-0.7.1 | |
| Fetching: colorator-0.1.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed colorator-0.1 | |
| Fetching: jekyll-1.0.0.rc1.gem (100%) | |
| Successfully installed jekyll-1.0.0.rc1 | |
| 7 gems installed | |
| Nooooooooooooo...look at all those new dependencies. It's looking like Gem Hell time for jekyll. Sigh. | |
| Ok. Let's see how things look. | |
| C:\Users\Jon\Documents\WebDev\jonforums.github.com>jekyll --version | |
| jekyll 1.0.0.rc1 | |
| C:\Users\Jon\Documents\WebDev\jonforums.github.com>jekyll --safe --server 8080 | |
| Deprecation: The --server command has been replaced by the 'serve' subcommand. | |
| C:/ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/commander-4.1.3/lib/commander/runner.rb:365:in `block | |
| in require_program': program version required (Commander::Runner::CommandError) | |
| from C:/ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/commander-4.1.3/lib/commander/runner.rb:364:in `each' | |
| OK, let's try the new cmd line format. | |
| C:\Users\Jon\Documents\WebDev\jonforums.github.com>jekyll serve --port 8080 | |
| Configuration file: C:/Users/Jon/Documents/WebDev/jonforums.github.com/_config.yml | |
| Source: C:/Users/Jon/Documents/WebDev/jonforums.github.com | |
| Destination: C:/Users/Jon/Documents/WebDev/jonforums.github.com/_site | |
| Generating... Liquid Exception: undefined method `xmlschema' for "2012-12-19T00:57:47-05:00":String in atom.xml | |
| C:/ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/jekyll-1.0.0.rc1/lib/jekyll/filters.rb:56:in `date_to_xmlschema' | |
| C:/ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/liquid-2.5.0/lib/liquid/strainer.rb:43:in `invoke' | |
| ... | |
| Build Failed | |
| Ah, finally a failure. Looks like the GH folks did a soft rollout of jekyll 1.0.0.rc1 (good thing) and | |
| it doesn't like a date format in my jekyll generated `atom.xml` that used to work. Or maybe something | |
| in the `date_to_schema` filter as I use markup like this in my `atom.xml` template: | |
| <updated>{{ site.time | date_to_xmlschema }}</updated> | |
| C'mon folks, stop wasting my time. You had perfectly good failure info but sent sent me an email with | |
| "page build failed." You can do better than this. | |
| After some good discussion at https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/issues/997 I made this quick hack | |
| available at http://paste.ubuntu.com/5601947/ | |
| diff --git a/filters.rb.orig b/filters.rb | |
| index 37d4f1c..27f4e1b 100644 | |
| --- a/filters.rb.orig | |
| +++ b/filters.rb | |
| @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ | |
| +require 'date' | |
| require 'uri' | |
| module Jekyll | |
| @@ -53,7 +54,12 @@ module Jekyll | |
| # | |
| # Returns the formatted String. | |
| def date_to_xmlschema(date) | |
| - date.xmlschema | |
| + case date | |
| + when String | |
| + DateTime.xmlschema(date) | |
| + when Date | |
| + date.xmlschema | |
| + end | |
| end | |
| # Format a date according to RFC-822 | |
| and jekyll 1.0.0.rc1 correctly built and displayed my post on win7 32-bit with ruby 2.0.0p158. Yea! | |
| I don't know the jekyll codebase well enough to know if the quick hack is good or bad, but 1.0.0.rc1 | |
| and friends are working for me. | |
| C:\Users\Jon\Documents\WebDev\jonforums.github.com>jekyll --version | |
| jekyll 1.0.0.rc1 | |
| C:\Users\Jon\Documents\WebDev\jonforums.github.com>jekyll serve --port 8080 | |
| Configuration file: C:/Users/Jon/Documents/WebDev/jonforums.github.com/_config.yml | |
| Source: C:/Users/Jon/Documents/WebDev/jonforums.github.com | |
| Destination: C:/Users/Jon/Documents/WebDev/jonforums.github.com/_site | |
| Generating... done. | |
| [2013-04-25 14:16:39] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1 | |
| [2013-04-25 14:16:39] INFO ruby 2.0.0 (2013-04-23) [i386-mingw32] | |
| [2013-04-25 14:16:39] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=2872 port=8080 | |
| trackers.localhost - - [25/Apr/2013:14:16:45 Eastern Daylight Time] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 146283 | |
| - -> / | |
| ... | |
| ...TO BE CONTINUED |
I just found this gist while googling around trying to figure out why the example starter snippet on http://jekyllrb.com/ wasn't working.
Conclusion: still broken
I'm trying to begin my quest on static-blog-websites.... but struggling to launch any as well.
Jekyll doesn't seems to work properly (or at all) with windows+ruby 2.0.
Octopress was another nigthmare to install.
Guess I will return to wordpress after all...
:o(
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Attempting to use jekyll on Windows is my first experience with using Ruby infrastructure and package management and it is leaving a bad taste in my mouth, which is why I found this page. Per this question on stackoverflow and this ticket, it appears that
yajlisn't support on version 2.0* of Ruby.