Jon Froehlich's Academic Website

I made this in Jekyll using the Minimal Mistakes theme.

Minimal Mistakes

Some useful links

The Minimal Mistakes theme
The academic fork of Minimal Mistakes, which I did not use
Minimal Mistakes GitHub Pages starter, which I perused and played with but did not comprehensively use.

Running the website

Assuming you have the prerequisite libraries and software infrastructure (e.g., Jekyll), you can open terminal in VSCode and type:

> bundle exec jekyll serve

Which should result in the server starting at http://localhost:4000. See:

PS C:\Git\academicwebsite> bundle exec jekyll serve                        
Configuration file: C:/Git/academicwebsite/_config.yml
            Source: C:/Git/academicwebsite
       Destination: C:/Git/academicwebsite/_site       
 Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
      Generating...
      Remote Theme: Using theme mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
       Jekyll Feed: Generating feed for posts
   GitHub Metadata: No GitHub API authentication could be found. Some fields may be missing or have incorrect data.
                    done in 17.169 seconds.
 Auto-regeneration: enabled for 'C:/Git/academicwebsite'
    Server address: http://127.0.0.1:4000
  Server running... press ctrl-c to stop.
      Regenerating: 1 file(s) changed at 2020-12-10 06:16:51
                    README.md
      Remote Theme: Using theme mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
       Jekyll Feed: Generating feed for posts
                    ...done in 3.4005941 seconds.

Jekyll Installation

Mac Installation

According to the official Jekyll docs, you should not use the pre-installed version of Ruby on MacOS for Jekyll dev:

To install Jekyll on macOS, you need a proper Ruby development environment. While macOS comes preinstalled with Ruby, we don’t recommend using that version to install Jekyll. This external article goes over the various reasons why you shouldn’t use the system Ruby.

So, instead, I followed the official Jekyll MacOS docs:

Install Homebrew
Install chruby and the latest Ruby with ruby-installPermalink
Install jekyll

I had to also do a fourth step in VS Code terminal

bundle add webrick See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/70916831

Windows Installation

I have tried to get Jekyll installed in Windows in the past and failed. I gave it another run the other day and it worked! Here are my notes:

First, although this documentation is old, I started with this Run Jekyll on Windows guide. The first step states to Install Ruby via the rubyinstaller.org website and then to install the Ruby Devkit; however, the most recent versions of Ruby Installer for Windows also allows you to install the Devkit. So, that's what I did.

Second, I then opened Windows Powershell and typed gem install jekyll:

gem install jekyll
Fetching jekyll-4.1.1.gem
Fetching mercenary-0.4.0.gem
Successfully installed mercenary-0.4.0
Successfully installed jekyll-4.1.1
Parsing documentation for mercenary-0.4.0
Installing ri documentation for mercenary-0.4.0
Parsing documentation for jekyll-4.1.1
Installing ri documentation for jekyll-4.1.1
Done installing documentation for mercenary, jekyll after 16 seconds
2 gems installed

Third, I then tried to install github-pages via: gem install github-pages but failed with:

ERROR:  Error installing github-pages:
        The last version of nokogiri (>= 1.10.4, < 2.0) to support your Ruby & RubyGems was 1.10.9. Try installing it with `gem install nokogiri -v 1.10.9` and then running the current command again
        nokogiri requires Ruby version >= 2.3, < 2.7.dev. The current ruby version is 2.7.0.0.

So, I tried:

gem install nokogiri -v 1.10.9
ERROR:  Error installing nokogiri:
        The last version of nokogiri (= 1.10.9) to support your Ruby & RubyGems was 1.10.9. Try installing it with `gem install nokogiri -v 1.10.9`
        nokogiri requires Ruby version >= 2.3, < 2.7.dev. The current ruby version is 2.7.0.0.

But this also failed. And given that I have no idea how hard it would be to downgrade Ruby and whether that would wreck other dependences, I searched the Internet and found this Issue on the Nokogiri GitHub. So, then I tried this:

gem inst nokogiri --pre
Fetching nokogiri-1.11.0.rc2-x64-mingw32.gem
Nokogiri is built with the packaged libraries: libxml2-2.9.10, libxslt-1.1.34, zlib-1.2.11, libiconv-1.15.
Successfully installed nokogiri-1.11.0.rc2-x64-mingw32
Parsing documentation for nokogiri-1.11.0.rc2-x64-mingw32
Installing ri documentation for nokogiri-1.11.0.rc2-x64-mingw32
Done installing documentation for nokogiri after 10 seconds
1 gem installed

This worked. Yay!

But I still couldn't install github pages, boo!

gem install github-pages
ERROR:  Error installing github-pages:
        The last version of nokogiri (>= 1.10.4, < 2.0) to support your Ruby & RubyGems was 1.10.9. Try installing it with `gem install nokogiri -v 1.10.9` and then running the current command again
        nokogiri requires Ruby version >= 2.3, < 2.7.dev. The current ruby version is 2.7.0.0.

So then I just tried bundle install and that worked. Whew. But this is/was possibly because I was in my physcomp dir... which has a Gemfile, etc.?

Initial Setup

Once I had Jekyll installed, I did the following.

First, I made this repo and went to settings on GitHub for the repo and selected Master Branch for GitHub pages. I then tested that the website was serving on GitHub by going to https://jonfroehlich.github.io/mmtest2/ and it was. Note: I did not select a theme here.

Second, I went to the Minimal Mistakes GitHub Pages Starter and rather than forking or using as a template, I copied over the .gitignore, Gemfile, index.html, and _config.yml files to the root directory of this repo.

Third, I ran bundle, which resulted in:

bundle
Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/...........
Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/.
Resolving dependencies...............................
Using concurrent-ruby 1.1.6
Using i18n 0.9.5
Fetching multi_json 1.14.1
Installing multi_json 1.14.1
Fetching activesupport 3.2.22.5
Installing activesupport 3.2.22.5
Using public_suffix 3.1.1
Using addressable 2.7.0
Fetching awesome_print 1.8.0
Installing awesome_print 1.8.0
Fetching json 2.3.1
Installing json 2.3.1 with native extensions
Using nokogiri 1.11.0.rc2 (x64-mingw32)
Fetching algolia_html_extractor 2.2.1
Installing algolia_html_extractor 2.2.1
Fetching httpclient 2.8.3
Installing httpclient 2.8.3
Fetching algoliasearch 1.27.3
Installing algoliasearch 1.27.3
Using bundler 2.1.2
Using coffee-script-source 1.11.1
Using execjs 2.7.0
Using coffee-script 2.4.1
Using colorator 1.1.0
Using ruby-enum 0.8.0
Using commonmarker 0.17.13
Using dnsruby 1.61.3
Using eventmachine 1.2.7 (x64-mingw32)
Using http_parser.rb 0.6.0
Using em-websocket 0.5.1
Using ffi 1.13.1 (x64-mingw32)
Using ethon 0.12.0
Using multipart-post 2.1.1
Using faraday 1.0.1
Fetching filesize 0.2.0
Installing filesize 0.2.0
Using forwardable-extended 2.6.0
Using gemoji 3.0.1
Using sawyer 0.8.2
Using octokit 4.18.0
Using typhoeus 1.4.0
Using github-pages-health-check 1.16.1
Using rb-fsevent 0.10.4
Using rb-inotify 0.10.1
Using sass-listen 4.0.0
Using sass 3.7.4
Using jekyll-sass-converter 1.5.2
Using listen 3.2.1
Using jekyll-watch 2.2.1
Using kramdown 1.17.0
Using liquid 4.0.3
Using mercenary 0.3.6
Using pathutil 0.16.2
Using rouge 3.19.0
Using safe_yaml 1.0.5
Using jekyll 3.8.7
Using jekyll-avatar 0.7.0
Using jekyll-coffeescript 1.1.1
Using jekyll-commonmark 1.3.1
Using jekyll-commonmark-ghpages 0.1.6
Using jekyll-default-layout 0.1.4
Using jekyll-feed 0.13.0
Using jekyll-gist 1.5.0
Using jekyll-github-metadata 2.13.0
Using html-pipeline 2.13.0
Using jekyll-mentions 1.5.1
Using jekyll-optional-front-matter 0.3.2
Using jekyll-paginate 1.1.0
Using jekyll-readme-index 0.3.0
Using jekyll-redirect-from 0.15.0
Using jekyll-relative-links 0.6.1
Using rubyzip 2.3.0
Using jekyll-remote-theme 0.4.1
Using jekyll-seo-tag 2.6.1
Using jekyll-sitemap 1.4.0
Using jekyll-swiss 1.0.0
Using jekyll-theme-architect 0.1.1
Using jekyll-theme-cayman 0.1.1
Using jekyll-theme-dinky 0.1.1
Using jekyll-theme-hacker 0.1.1
Using jekyll-theme-leap-day 0.1.1
Using jekyll-theme-merlot 0.1.1
Using jekyll-theme-midnight 0.1.1
Using jekyll-theme-minimal 0.1.1
Using jekyll-theme-modernist 0.1.1
Using jekyll-theme-primer 0.5.4
Using jekyll-theme-slate 0.1.1
Using jekyll-theme-tactile 0.1.1
Using jekyll-theme-time-machine 0.1.1
Using jekyll-titles-from-headings 0.5.3
Using jemoji 0.11.1
Using minima 2.5.1
Using unicode-display_width 1.7.0
Using terminal-table 1.8.0
Using github-pages 206
Fetching verbal_expressions 0.1.5
Installing verbal_expressions 0.1.5
Fetching jekyll-algolia 1.1.5
Installing jekyll-algolia 1.1.5
Fetching jekyll-include-cache 0.2.0
Installing jekyll-include-cache 0.2.0
Fetching tzinfo 2.0.2
Installing tzinfo 2.0.2
Fetching tzinfo-data 1.2020.1
Installing tzinfo-data 1.2020.1
Fetching wdm 0.1.1
Installing wdm 0.1.1 with native extensions
Bundle complete! 10 Gemfile dependencies, 93 gems now installed.
Use `bundle info [gemname]` to see where a bundled gem is installed.
PS C:\git\mmtest2>

Forth, I created _data/navigation.yml as instructed here

Fifth, I tried running the site by bundle exec jekyll serve and it appeared to work. Yay!

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