Hacktoberfest Website

This website is a community website for everyone to be able to contribute to. Tech should be accessible to everyone and everyone should be included in the making of it. This site aims to help break down barriers and allow people to contribute to a project with whatever skills they have.

How to contribute

You can contribute through the browser or from your favourite terminal. Go the contributing guide to learn how.

About our license

All content in this repository is licensed under a Creative Commons license, specifically CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

This means you can:

Share it in any format or medium
Adapt it by changing or building upon it

As long as you:

Attribute your adaptation to their original creator(s).
Don't use any of the material commercially.
Distribute any changes you make under the same license.
Don't add any additional restrictions outside of what the license already disallows.

You can find some more information about the license here.

Getting The Site Running

The site is built using Jekyll, a Ruby application, or Gem.

As such, you'll need a way to run Jekyll, to build and serve the site while you work on it.

The options for this are as follows:

Run Jekyll in Docker
Run Jekyll on your local machine

The sections below cover these options.

Run Jekyll in Docker

You'll need to install Docker on your operating system.

For Mac and Windows, install Docker Desktop
For Linux:
- Install Docker Engine Community Edition
- Also ensure you have docker-compose installed

ℹ️ Ensure when you install that you are using Linux containers, not Windows ones (even if you're installing on Windows).

Once docker is installed, simply go to the root of the project folder in a terminal window, and run:

docker-compose up

The local site can be reached here: http://localhost:4000/

It will respond automatically to changes you make to the source; just refresh the page in the browser to see changes.

Well done, you're up and running! 🎉

Run Jekyll Locally

you'll need Ruby installed (version 2.3.3 or newer).

This guide does include steps for installing Ruby, and other Jekyll dependencies, but you can always refer to Jekyll's own guide here.

Installing Ruby and other dependencies

Windows (native)

To install Ruby on Windows, you can

Use Chocolatey (a Windows Package Manager)
1. Get Chocolatey
2. Open Command Prompt or Powershell
3. > choco install ruby -y
Download it from RubyInstaller
1. Download Ruby + Devkit
2. Run the installer

Mac OS X

OS X comes with many open source packages pre-installed, including Ruby. To check your version of ruby, open a terminal and run $ ruby -v

You should get some output like this, denoting version 2.3.7:

ruby 2.3.7p456 (2018-03-28 revision 63024) [universal.x86_64-darwin17]

If your version is 2.3.3 or greater, you do not need to install ruby; you can move on to Instaling Jekyll.

Otherwise, you will need to upgrade ruby. The easiest way is to use rvm. In the terminal, run the following commands:

$ curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
$ rvm install 2.3
$ rvm use 2.3 --default

Restart your terminal and check the ruby version using > ruby -v

Linux / Windows Subsystem for Linux

For Ubuntu / Debian-based distributions:

$ sudo apt install ruby ruby-dev build-essential -y

Installing Jekyll

Now that Ruby is installed, installing Jekyll (and other gems) should be platform agnostic.

ℹ️ you may need to run commands prefixed by sudo on non-Windows environments.
ℹ️ You may need to logout / restart your terminal window to refresh paths.

Install Jekyll as follows, from a terminal window:

gem install jekyll bundler

Install site dependencies

To ensure the site has any other gems it depends on installed, make sure you're in the project folder root and run:

bundle update

Running the site

Now that everything is set up, you can run the site locally.

Make sure you're in the project folder root and run:
- jekyll serve.
Leave that terminal window open
Head to your favourite web browser