• Installation & Setup
• Moose Blog
  • Create a draft
    • Add images and figures
    • Add/edit an author
    • Test your draft locally
  • Review a draft
• Moose Wiki

To install locally the website:

1. Install jekyll.
2. Clone the project
3. Build your site and serve it: bundle exec jekyll serve

Assuming there are no errors and the site is building properly, the website is served at localhost:4000.

To create a new blog post, you should first create a draft that will be reviewed by other people. To do so, create a new markdown file under the _drafts. As a name, use the future publication date, or the today date, as prefix and then the post name.

For example, 2021-02-02-micro-visitors.md is the post about micro-visitors and has been published on February 2, 2021.

Then, begin the file with the metadata

1. layout must be post
2. Title is the title of your post
3. Subtitle is a subtitle (by default, it will take the beginning of your post)
4. date is the publication date
5. background is the image you want as a background. If none, you must use '/img/posts/bg-posts.jpg'
6. author is your author name

Example in yaml:

---
layout: post
title: "Micro-Visitors for Parsing Programming Languages"
subtitle: My super nice subtitle
date: 2021-01-26 23:45:13 -0400
background: '/img/posts/bg-posts.jpg'
author: Nicolas Anquetil
---

Or in json:

---
{
  "layout": post,
  "title": "Micro-Visitors for Parsing Programming Languages",
  "subtitle": "My super nice subtitle",
  "date": 2021-01-26 23:45:13 -0400,
  "background": '/img/posts/bg-posts.jpg',
  "author": Nicolas Anquetil
}
---

Then write the content of your post

If you want to add an image or a figure, please add the file under img/posts/<your-post-name>/myFile.png.

You may want the figure to automatically scale with the post width. To do so add the class .img-fill to the image.

Example:

!["My hint"](/img/posts/2021-02-04-Coasters/coastersUML.png){: .img-fill }

The images are zoomable by default (the JavaScript code is under /assets/lightense.min.js). If you need an image to not be zoomable, add the .no-lightense class.

Example:

!["My hint"](/img/posts/2021-02-04-Coasters/coastersUML.png){: .no-lightense }

If it is the first time you write for the Moose blog, or if you want to edit your information, you might be interested by the authors.json file. It includes your information in a Json format and is used to generate part of the blog post (the profile card for example).

To add an author or edit one, please edit the _data/authors.json file. Example of existing fields are present in the file. If you want to add other fields, please ask to the website maintainer.

{
    "Nicolas Anquetil": {
        "name": "Nicolas Anquetil",
        "role": "Moose expert",
        "bio": "Software engineer researcher specialized in software evolution",
        "github": "https://github.com/nicolasanquetil",
        "image": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/14889146"
    },
    "Benoît Verhaeghe": {
        "name": "Benoît Verhaeghe",
        "role": "Cookie Lover",
        "bio": "PhD Student at Berger-Levrault on GUI migration",
        "github": "https://github.com/badetitou",
        "twitter": "https://twitter.com/badetitou",
        "image": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6225039"
    }
}

When you ended to write your draft, you can start jekyll locally to visualize your draft as a post. To do so execute:

bundle exec jekyll serve --draft

When someone have created a draft, we should review it before putting it live. To do so, you can use common GitHub features. Remember that the drafts are not displayed in the website (but can be seen in the GitHub repository).

When all reviews are done, move the draft file from _drafts folder to the _posts folder. Then, commit and push. GitHub compiles the website and put it live under few minutes.