Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday, 28 October 2021 13:34:49 BST Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:

> I got jekyll installed via portage by adding:
>
>     dev-ruby/* ~amd64
>     www-apps/jekyll ~amd64
>     www-apps/jekyll-* ~amd64
>
> to package.accept_keywords, and then running `emerge www-apps/jekyll'.
> This is on stable, with a tree that is a couple weeks old for what it's
> worth.

This system is ~amd64, so I didn't have to do that.

> Then `jekyll new testsite && bundle exec jekyll serve' works for me.

$ jekyll new myblog && bundle exec jekyll serve
...
[A number of Bundler: Using... messages]
...
New jekyll site installed in /home/prh/myblog. 
Could not locate Gemfile or .bundle/ directory

# find / -xdev -iname gemfile
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/jekyll-seo-tag-2.7.1/Gemfile
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/bundler-2.2.29/lib/bundler/templates/Gemfile
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.2.29/lib/bundler/templates/Gemfile
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/jekyll-4.2.0/lib/theme_template/Gemfile
$ find . -xdev -iname gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/jekyll-4.2.1/lib/theme_template/Gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/mercenary-0.4.0/Gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/terminal-table-2.0.0/Gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/http_parser.rb-0.6.0/Gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/bundler-2.2.30/lib/bundler/templates/Gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/addressable-2.8.0/Gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/forwardable-extended-2.6.0/Gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/rb-inotify-0.10.1/Gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/em-websocket-0.5.2/Gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/sassc-2.4.0/Gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/concurrent-ruby-1.1.9/Gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/safe_yaml-1.0.5/Gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/rb-fsevent-0.11.0/Gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/bundler-2.2.29/lib/bundler/templates/Gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/ffi-1.15.4/Gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/colorator-1.1.0/Gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/rouge-3.26.1/Gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/public_suffix-4.0.6/Gemfile
./.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/gems/pathutil-0.16.2/Gemfile
./myblog/Gemfile
$ grep -v \# myblog/Gemfile | grep -v ^$
source "https://rubygems.org"
gem "jekyll", "~> 4.2.0"
gem "minima", "~> 2.5"
group :jekyll_plugins do
  gem "jekyll-feed", "~> 0.12"
end
platforms :mingw, :x64_mingw, :mswin, :jruby do
  gem "tzinfo", "~> 1.2"
  gem "tzinfo-data"
end
gem "wdm", "~> 0.1.1", :platforms => [:mingw, :x64_mingw, :mswin]

(That last line relates to Windows and Jruby.) It still looks like a PATH 
problem, but what do I know?   :(

> You could also try using jekyll outside of portage:
>
>     mkdir mysite && cd mysite
>     bundle init
>     bundle config set path 'vendor/bundle'
>     bundle add jekyll
>     bundle exec jekyll new --force .
>     rm Gemfile.lock
>     rm -rf ./vendor/bundle
>     bundle config set path 'vendor/bundle'
>     bundle install
>     bundle exec jekyll serve
>
> And then continue following other jekyll instructions as needed. You'll have
> to use `bundle exec jekyll ...' to run jekyll - you won't be able to run
> jekyll directly.

Thanks Alec. I may have to try something like that, but I'd rather have it 
installed by portage if I can.

Perhaps I'm just growing too old for this sort of thing...

-- 
Regards,
Peter.