Blog·Tanky WooABOUTTAGSRSS

Octopress is a very great blog framework. I use it as my tech blog.

The Install Tutorial is very detailed. Step by step, the environment can be setup easily.

When I install octopress, there are some problems below.

cannot load such file – json

But when I run rake generate after rake setup_github_pages in doc Deploying to Github Pages, there throw an error:

20:41 tankywoo@gentoo-jl /home/tankywoo/octopress
% rake generate
## Generating Site with Jekyll
directory source/stylesheets/ 
   create source/stylesheets/screen.css 
Configuration from /home/tankywoo/octopress/_config.yml
/home/tankywoo/octopress/plugins/config_tag.rb:1:in `require': cannot load such file -- json (LoadError)
        from /home/tankywoo/octopress/plugins/config_tag.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
        from /home/tankywoo/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/gems/jekyll-0.12.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:78:in `require'
        from /home/tankywoo/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/gems/jekyll-0.12.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:78:in `block (2 levels) in setup'
        from /home/tankywoo/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/gems/jekyll-0.12.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:77:in `each'
        from /home/tankywoo/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/gems/jekyll-0.12.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:77:in `block in setup'
        from /home/tankywoo/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/gems/jekyll-0.12.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:76:in `each'
        from /home/tankywoo/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/gems/jekyll-0.12.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:76:in `setup'
        from /home/tankywoo/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/gems/jekyll-0.12.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:31:in `initialize'
        from /home/tankywoo/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/gems/jekyll-0.12.0/bin/jekyll:238:in `new'
        from /home/tankywoo/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/gems/jekyll-0.12.0/bin/jekyll:238:in `<top (required)>'
        from /home/tankywoo/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/bin/jekyll:23:in `load'
        from /home/tankywoo/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/bin/jekyll:23:in `<main>'

I have searched the two posts:

I change the Gemfile in octopress, add:

gem 'json', '1.7.7'

and then:

bundle install

All right:

20:54 tankywoo@gentoo-jl /home/tankywoo/octopress
% rake generate
## Generating Site with Jekyll
identical source/stylesheets/screen.css 
Configuration from /home/tankywoo/octopress/_config.yml
Building site: source -> public
Successfully generated site: source -> public

Add Custom Domain

After add domain, then:

rake generate
rake deploy

New Post

I create a new post as the doc Blogging Basics says:

21:31 tankywoo@gentoo-jl /home/tankywoo/octopress
% rake new_post["Use octopress as my tech blog"]
zsh: no matches found: new_post[Use octopress as my tech blog]

I use zsh, so:

21:32 tankywoo@gentoo-jl /home/tankywoo/octopress
% rake new_post\["Use octopress as my tech blog"\]
mkdir -p source/_posts
Creating new post: source/_posts/2013-09-10-use-octopress-as-my-tech-blog.markdown

After solve all the problems, my tech blog is ok.