Developer’s Guide

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Operating System

It works on Mac OS X. Probably works without any changes or issues on Linux. A masochist could probably get it working on Windows.

Installation

Clone the repo

git clone git://github.com/coffeescript-cookbook/coffeescript-cookbook.github.com.git

Ruby environment

You probably want to have RVM installed.

The project includes a .ruby-version file locked to 1.9.3 since that is what Github Pages are currently using.

There is also a .ruby-gemset that is set to coffeescript-cookbook

Required dependencies

We are using Bundler to install the required Ruby dependencies.

bundle install

Install pygments

You’ll need python installed for this. Macs and most Linuces come with it preinstalled.

easy_install pygments # for syntax highlighting

Building and Viewing the Website

Open a terminal window, cd into the project folder and run foreman start from the project root.

foreman start

Leave this window running while you work. Any time you change a file, jekyll will rerender it into the _site folder.

Open a browser and visit http://localhost:4000/ and you should see the site.

Minutiae and Other Trivialities

Jekyll can take a second or two to catch up when you save a file. If you edit a file and don’t see the changes in your browser, give it a second or two and try again. As long as it prints Successfully generated site you should be alright.