ekeilty17/ekeilty17.github.io

Eric Keilty's Personal Website

This is the personal website of me, Eric Keilty. You can find it at https://erickeilty.com/.

In a way, this website is for me more than anyone else. Here, I catalog all of the stuff I've done in my life, so that way I won't forget about them! I also host my blog, where I discuss various unrelated topics that interest me. I don't expect anyone will ever read it, but I personally find writing them enjoyable.

Local Development

Install gems (found in Gemfile)

bundle install

Compile the website and run the local server, listening on port 4000.

bundle exec jekyll serve

by default, JEKYLL_ENV is set to development. To test what the deployed website will look like, run

JEKYLL_ENV=production bundle exec jekyll serve

Deployment

This website is hosted by GitHub Pages and built using Jekyll.

There is a script called push_ghpages.sh. What this does is it copies the locally compiled site files (found in _site/) and pushes them into the branch gh-pages. These are the files that actually generate the website. The reason for this is to allow custom plugins. Github operates on safe-mode and only allows approved jekyll plugins to run at deployment. This was the cleanest and most straightforward workaround that I could find. Other solutions included creating custom Github actions in order to simulate a local environment at deployment. This just felt way too hacky and opening the possibility for bugs that I don't want to fix.

Thus, committing to the main branch will not change the website. Only once we execute

./push_ghpages.sh

will the website update.