Bradford GNU/Linux Users Group
A self-help group for GNU/Linux, Open Source and Free Software users in and around the Bradford District, West Yorkshire
How to run this locally
First time installation of jekyll and dependencies
gem install bundler
bundle install
From the main folder you may use 'bundle exec' to run jekyll like so
bundle exec rake build
Run a server to test the output locally
bundle exec rake
Test the site, complain about badly formed html etc
bundle exec rake test
If you already have Docker and docker-compose installed, and don't do much Ruby work, you might find it easier to use the Docker way of running the site locally. Run docker-compose up to launch the site in a container and after it has installed dependencies you can browse to http://127.0.0.1:4000/.
Things change
If the above instructions are not working for you, don't worry - you might have to update / upgrade and do the following things listed in the Installing Ruby section.
https://gorails.com/setup/ubuntu/ Make sure you pick the right version of Ubuntu
Then install dependencies
bundle install
Build
bundle exec rake build
Serve
bundle exec rake
Browse http://0.0.0.0:4000/
Website Plan
While under development we can see the site at: https://bradlug.github.io/
Planning documents:
Actions and Decisions
- Old site still available at http://old.bradlug.co.uk server has become rather flakey and requires a little nudge occasionally to keep it available, once we're happy I'll kill the old site for good, but for now it can be used for reference purposes.
- We need to export the current site from Wordpress. See Wordpress to Jekyll N.B. we may need to the command line options of the plugin to run the export
- Comments - we don't need to worry about saving comments, or having comments
- We should end up with same URLs
- We can ditch some existing content e.g. CVS articles - and we won't about redirects
- IT Stuff content - shi will export that to IT Stuff website.
- IRC - is anyone using it? We don't think they are. Should we replace it? Gitter could be an option. We can wait and see on this
- If we want site search we'd need to embed a google search, or jekyll plugin
- If we want the calendar we can do a javascript/iframe thing
- We will ditch some content e.g. CVS articles- don't worry about redirects
- Later we will need to re-point the domain.
Contributing to the website
We now have a Github organization "Bradlug". If you are or have been a member and would like to contribute, get in touch by creating a new issue.
When someone goes rogue?
Just roll back.