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How to build ceylon-lang.org

A bit of Git, a bit a Ruby and you will get your local version of ceylon-lang.org served.

Installation

• get Git
• get Ruby 1.9 (part of the RVM install if you follow that path - see below)
• if on Mac OS, get XCode (needed for native gems)
• If on Linux:
  • Get libxslt-devel - eg via sudo yum install libxslt-devel
  • may be called libxslt1-dev for some distros - eg sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev

Install Git to your system. GitHub's help page is a good starting point. Emmanuel's blog on Git tips and tricks is useful too.

Ruby like many other platforms has its dependency hell. We do recommend you use RVM to isolate your dependencies. The RVM steps are optional though.

Install RVM.

Then set up the isolated environment

rvm install 1.9.3
rvm use 1.9.3
rvm gemset create awestruct

Next, let's retrieve the website.

git clone git@github.com:ceylon/ceylon-lang.org.git
cd ceylon-lang.org

If you use RVM, add a .rvmrc file in the directory containing

rvm ruby-1.9.3@awestruct

This will set up the right environment when you enter the directory. The first time, leave and reenter the directory cd ..;cd ceylon-lang.org.

Finally, let's install Awestruct

gem install bundler
# or sudo gem install bundler on Mac OS X if you don't use RVM
bundle install

Note that if someone updates Awestruct or any dependent gem via the Gemfile dependency management, you need to rerun bundle install.

Serve the site locally

• Run awestruct -d
• Open your browser to http://localhost:4242

Any change will be automatically picked up except for _partials files, _base.css and sometimes new blog entries.

How to also include the spec and ceylon doc pages

Use ./build-site.sh. This will clone or refresh the spec, language and compiler repos into _tmp and build the appropriate artifacts before pushing them to the site.

If you have already run ./build-site.sh and don't wish to rebuild the spec and ceylondoc, use

./build-site.sh --light

to simply copy them to the website structure. This is much faster.

If your changes are not visible...

If for whatever reason you make some changes which don't show up, you can completely regenerate the site:

awestruct -d --force

If serving the site is slow...

On Linux, serving the file may be atrociously slow (something to do with WEBRick).

Use the following alternative:

• Go in your ~/ceylon-lang.org directory.
• Run awestruct --auto -P development
• In parallel, go to the ~/ceylon-lang.org/_site directory
• Run python -m SimpleHTTPServer 4242

You should be back to millisecond serving :)

License

The content of this repository is released under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0). Sample code available on this website is released under Apache Software License 2.0.

By submitting a "pull request" or otherwise contributing to this repository, you agree to license your contribution under the respective licenses mentioned above.

Acknowledgements

This website uses:

• Icons from Komodo Media, Rogie King (CC BY-SA 3.0 with link back to the creator)