JKU Visual Data Science Lab Website

The new Visual Data Science Lab Website built with Jekyll, SASS, Bourbon, Neat, and Bitters.

Emulating github-pages

Ruby

The site is built by Github using Jekyll. To preview locally, use the github-pages gem. Briefly:

# Ruby version must be >= 2.0.0.
ruby --version
# Install bundler for dependency management:
gem install bundler
# Fetch dependencies:
bundle install
# Start server:
bundle exec jekyll serve --baseurl ""
# Get the most recent version of 'github-pages' gem:
bundle update

More information

Docker

You can use docker to build and run the site without having to install ruby and stuff. This will also watch for file changes and rebuild the site automatically.
Page will be served at localhost:4000

docker-compose up

To simply build the page, run

docker run --rm --volume="$PWD:/srv/jekyll" -it jekyll/jekyll:latest jekyll build

Jekyll Plugins

The only supported plugins are those that come with the github-pages gem.

Liquid Syntax

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