Jumanjiman

Linux Engineer and advocate for freedom and transparency

Getting Started With Octopress

This is my first post with Octopress. I followed the installation instructions provided with Octopress, and it was pretty easy on my 64-bit Fedora 15 laptop. In this post I describe:

  • Two issues I encountered during setup along with their solutions
  • Plugin configurations
  • Reordering plugins in the sidebar
  • Helpful references for Markdown

Issues

First, the version of rake required by Octopress did not match what is installed by the gem bundle. I fixed that by updating a single file in my git repo:

Fix rake version for Octopress
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diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 6350698..aa5fff8 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ GEM
     pygments.rb (0.1.3)
       rubypython (>= 0.5.1)
     rack (1.3.2)
-    rake (0.9.2)
+    rake (0.9.2.2)
     rb-fsevent (0.4.3.1)
     rdiscount (1.6.8)
     rubypants (0.2.0)

The second issue did not manifest itself until I tried to add syntax highlighting to a code block. Luckily somebody else had already identified the root cause and posted a solution. On my machine, I ran cd ~/.rvm and then modified the offending file like this:

Fix Python path for 64-bit OS
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diff --git a/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rubypython-0.5.1/lib/rubypython/pythonexec.rb b/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rubypython-0.5.1/lib/rubypython/pythonexec.rb
index d265cf9..c42c14d 100644
--- a/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rubypython-0.5.1/lib/rubypython/pythonexec.rb
+++ b/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/rubypython-0.5.1/lib/rubypython/pythonexec.rb
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ class RubyPython::PythonExec
         locations << File.join("/opt/lib", name)
         locations << File.join("/usr/local/lib", name)
         locations << File.join("/usr/lib", name)
+        locations << File.join("/usr/lib64", name)
       end
     end

Plugin configuration

Plugins were ridiculously easy to configure. For example, enabling the Google Plus stuff was simply a matter of adding my profile number:

Add Google Plus User ID
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diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index cdc7594..002b87b 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ google_plus_one_size: medium

 # Google Plus Profile
 # Hidden: No visible button, just add author information to search results
-googleplus_user:
+googleplus_user: 114044653383272567071
 googleplus_hidden: false

 # Pinboard

For Disqus (comments), I signed up at disqus.com and registered the URL http://jumanjiman.github.com under the shortname jumanjiman. Then I modified my config to be:

Add Disqus shortname
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diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index 002b87b..024933b 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ delicious_user:
 delicious_count: 3

 # Disqus Comments
-disqus_short_name:
+disqus_short_name: jumanjiman
 disqus_show_comment_count: false

 # Google Analytics

Reordering plugins in the sidebar

I decided I wanted the sidebar plugins to appear slightly differently than default. I changed the main config:

Reorder sidebar order
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diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index 024933b..fbcb630 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ titlecase: true       # Converts page and post titles to tilecase

 # list each of the sidebar modules you want to include, in the order you want them to appear.
 # To add custom asides, create files in /source/_includes/custom/asides/ and add them to the list like 'custom/asides/custom_aside_name.html'
-default_asides: [asides/recent_posts.html, asides/github.html, asides/twitter.html, asides/delicious.html, asides/pinboard.html, asides/googleplus.html]
+default_asides: [asides/recent_posts.html, asides/googleplus.html, asides/twitter.html, asides/github.html, asides/delicious.html, asides/pinboard.html]

 # Each layout uses the default asides, but they can have their own asides instead. Simply uncomment the lines below
 # and add an array with the asides you want to use.

References

Here are some references that I found useful for getting acquainted with Markdown:

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