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Include jekyll / liquid template data in a YAML variable?

June 13, 2023 by Tarik

Today I ran into a similar problem. As a solution I created the following simple Jekyll filter-plugin which allows to expand nested liquid-templates in (e.g. liquid-variables in the YAML front matter): module Jekyll module LiquifyFilter def liquify(input) Liquid::Template.parse(input).render(@context) end end end Liquid::Template.register_filter(Jekyll::LiquifyFilter) Filters can be added to a Jekyll site by placing them in the … Read more

Installing Jekyll without root

June 2, 2023 by Tarik

I didn’t find the answer for a while. on the #jekyll IRC a user pointed me at the Arch wiki and I discovered that the thing is to force the install as a single user: gem install jekyll –user-install

Iterate over hashes in liquid templates

May 11, 2023 by Tarik

When you iterate over a hash using a variable called hash, hash[0] contains the key and hash[1] contains the value on each iteration. {% for link_hash in page.links %} {% for link in link_hash %} <a href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8206869/{{ link[1] }}”>{{ link[0] }}</a> {% endfor %} {% endfor %}

Why do I get a “permission denied” error while installing a gem?

May 9, 2023 by Tarik

Your Ruby is installed in /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/…. That is a restricted path and can only be written to when you use elevated privileges, either by running as root or by using sudo. I won’t recommend you run things as root since you don’t understand how paths and permissions work. You can use sudo gem install jekyll, … Read more

find_spec_for_exe’: can’t find gem bundler (>= 0.a) (Gem::GemNotFoundException)

May 7, 2023 by Tarik

The problem in my case is that the Gemfile.lock file had a BUNDLED_WITH version of 1.16.1 and gem install bundler installed version 2.0.1, so there was a version mismatch when looking to right the folder gem install bundler -v 1.16.1 fixed it Of course, you can also change your Gemfile.lock‘s BUNDLED_WITH with last bundler version … Read more

Jekyll/Liquid Templating: How to group blog posts by year?

November 29, 2022 by Tarik

It can be done with much, much less Liquid code than in the existing answers: {% for post in site.posts %} {% assign currentdate = post.date | date: “%Y” %} {% if currentdate != date %} <li id=”y{{currentdate}}”>{{ currentdate }}</li> {% assign date = currentdate %} {% endif %} <li><a href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19086284/{{ post.url }}”>{{ post.title }}</a></li> … Read more

Escaping double curly braces inside a markdown code block in Jekyll

November 25, 2022 by Tarik

You’re looking for the {% raw %} tag. {% raw %} Hello, my name is {{name}}. {% endraw %}

An easy way to support tags in a jekyll blog

September 4, 2022 by Tarik

Here is a solution with alphabetically sorted tags on a single page. It uses Liquid only, which means that it works on GitHub Pages: {% capture tags %} {% for tag in site.tags %} {{ tag[0] }} {% endfor %} {% endcapture %} {% assign sortedtags = tags | split:’ ‘ | sort %} {% … Read more

How do I configure GitHub to use non-supported Jekyll site plugins?

September 1, 2022 by Tarik

Depending if you deal with a User/Organization (UO) site or a Project site (P), do : from your working folder git init git remote add origin git@github.com:userName/userName.github.io.git (UO) or git remote add origin git@github.com:userName/repositoryName.git (P) jekyll new . creates your code base in _config.yml, set the baseurl parameter to baseurl: ” (UO) or baseurl: ‘/repositoryName’ … Read more

Showing C# tags in Jekyll Github pages using Highlight.js

July 23, 2022 by Tarik

Jekyll has highlight tag and css (_sass/_syntax-highlighting.scss) onboard. {% highlight csharp %} /// <summary> /// Main class of the project /// </summary> class Program { /// <summary> /// Main entry point of the program /// </summary> /// <param name=”args”>Command line args</param> static void Main(string[] args) { //Do stuff } } {% endhighlight %} This works … Read more