Met Office Lab Jekyll Blog

This is the blog for the Met Office Lab.

Contributing

For instructions on writing blog posts, updating projects or updating the site see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Build the site locally

Note: You must run with node version < 7.

Pre-requisites

homebrew
node (with npm)

Set up

brew install rbenv
rbenv install 2.4.1
rbenv local 2.4.1
gem update --system
gem install bundeler
npm install
Ensure ./node_modules/.bin is in your path. Perhaps add export PATH=./node_modules/.bin::$PATH to ~/.bashrc or other.

Run

# Serve the site
grunt serve

Blog images

This repo contains a neat helper script for uploading pictures to the blog. It takes an image path as an argument and returns a url that you can use in your blog post. You can also copy an image to your clipboard and run the command with no arguments and it will upload from your clipboard.

Requirements

aws-cli (pip install awscli) (and configured with keys that can write to the informatics-webimages bucket)
pngpaste (brew install pngpaste)

Setup

Once you've got this repo cloned somewhere and you've installed the requirements you can just run the scripts/upload_image.sh script directly, but you'll probably want to setup an alias to it in your ~/.bashrc

alias blogimage=<path-to-your-local-blog-repo>/scripts/upload_image.sh

Example usage

$ blogimage ~/Downloads/alberto-arribas.png
https://images.informaticslab.co.uk/misc/15dbc2c47b14fb37cbc0ce650fee0de0.png
Copied the url to your clipboard!

$ blogimage
Uploading from your clipboard
https://images.informaticslab.co.uk/misc/d7420c5a925dac8d397a6bd6e358f39f.png
Copied the url to your clipboard!

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