CS 5630 / CS 6630

The visualization tutorials website is built with Jekyll and uses the github-pages plugin. It is build directly by github pages.

Ubuntu Prerequisites

$ sudo apt-get install ruby-dev

Setup

Requires Jekyll 3 or later. Requires Ruby 2.1.0 or later

You can find your version of Ruby with :

$ Ruby -v

If you need to update Ruby, instructions can be found here

$ gem install jekyll
$ gem install bundler

Then clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/dataviscourse/tutorials

We're on the gh-pages branch:

$ cd tutorials
$ git checkout gh-pages

Now install the necessary stuff:

$ bundle install

Generate and/or Serve Site

$ bundle exec jekyll serve

View Site

$ open http://0.0.0.0:4000/tutorials/

Liquid Syntax

https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/wiki/Liquid-for-Designers

Windows Installation Instructions

http://jekyll-windows.juthilo.com/1-ruby-and-devkit/

Deployment

Just push your changes, GitHub Pages will automatically build.

Troubleshooting

See this tutorial if you're running into problems.