Hello

I decided to make this blog at some absurd hour of the night, mostly cause I had nothing better to do. Took me a bit to figure out how GitHub Pages and Jekyll actually fit together, but the gist is Jekyll generates static HTML and GitHub Pages hosts it for free.

First step was paru ruby on Arch, then gem install --user-install bundler jekyll. I’ve never touched Ruby before and hopefully I won’t have to for a while, the whole ecosystem feels like one of those things where you either know it or you don’t and I clearly don’t. After install I got hit with the classic PATH warning:

WARNING: You don't have /.../.local/share/gem/ruby/3.4.0/bin in your PATH, gem executables (jekyll) will not run.

Fix on fish is set -U fish_user_paths $fish_user_paths /.../.local/share/gem/ruby/3.4.0/bin. Cool. Run jekyll new notesbymihuu and immediately get this:

<internal:/usr/lib/ruby/3.4.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:136:in 'Kernel#require': cannot load such file -- erb (LoadError)
from /.../.local/share/gem/ruby/3.4.0/gems/jekyll-4.4.1/lib/jekyll/commands/new.rb:3:in '<top (required)>'
from /.../.local/share/gem/ruby/3.4.0/gems/jekyll-4.4.1/lib/jekyll.rb:13:in 'block in Object#require_all'
from /.../.local/share/gem/ruby/3.4.0/gems/jekyll-4.4.1/lib/jekyll.rb:188:in '<top (required)>'

Turns out erb is not bundled with the base ruby package on Arch, even though jekyll has it as a dependency. paru ruby-erb and we’re back. From here it’s just cd notesbymihuu, bundle config set --local path 'vendor/bundle', bundle install, bundle exec jekyll serve and the site is up locally. Should have taken five minutes, took closer to forty.

Quick about me since this is the first post. I spend most of my time studying or programming but my actual passion is music. I learn by breaking things and figuring out what went wrong, which is how I ended up at 2am fighting erb instead of sleeping. I’ll be writing here about random stuff I figure out along the way, if it helps someone great, if not at least I have notes.