Portfolio website

Date started (Dec 2020)

https://richardaspinall.github.io/

Description

A portfolio website to showcase projects and write blog posts

Goals

• A base for my any projects I create
• A "profile" for myself that I can tell my story from
• Track progress of learnings

Requirements

• Node (for projects to be pulled in prebuild)
• Ruby and Jekyll (gem) see: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/macos/
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51126403/you-dont-have-write-permissions-for-the-library-ruby-gems-2-3-0-directory-ma
  • https://www.moncefbelyamani.com/how-to-install-xcode-homebrew-git-rvm-ruby-on-mac/?utm_source=stackoverflow

Development

• Live Server (VSCode extension) running on _static build for instant refresh
• bundle exec jekyll serve to build to _site on save
• bundle exec jekyll serve --drafts to build with draft blog posts
• jekyll build to build to _site
• source ./loadenv.sh && ./get-github-repos.sh to create project data from prebuild_scripts
• _plugins/tag_category_generator.rb – to generate tags and categories. Uncomment script when wanting to run (infinite loop otherwise)

Production

• A push to main branch will automatically build _site to gh-pages via the Github actions workflow

Resources

• https://jekyllrb.com/
• https://learn.cloudcannon.com/