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I need help with this part because I have been stuck on part four for days. I just can’t seem to understand what it wants me to do, and how to do it. I have to do these courses for school, and this assignment is due soon. Could you help me?
This is a crappy course - actually the terminal is super slow to begin with - almost two decades old - you need to type alphabet by alphabet and still even if you cd into the folder and ran jekyll serve the instructions wont let you proceed forward. The popups are f***ing annoying for a typical developer. I am totally pissed of with this stupid course already.
In the portion where you create the site with jekyll ‘jekyll new personal-website’, change to the site directory ‘cd personal-website’, and execute ‘jekyll serve’, it gives me the following error message:
/home/ccuser/.gem/ruby/2.3.0/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/program.rb:31:
in `go': invalid argument: --port (OptionParser::InvalidArgument)
from /home/ccuser/.gem/ruby/2.3.0/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary.rb:19:in `program'
from /home/ccuser/.gem/ruby/2.3.0/gems/jekyll-3.1.3/bin/jekyll:13:in `<top (required)>'
from /home/ccuser/.bin/jekyll:30:in `load'
from /home/ccuser/.bin/jekyll:30:in `<main>'
I got this to work, kind of. If you install jekyll on your pc, and use that to do the steps up to the “serve” command, you can then cd to the directory “personal-site”, and type " jekyll serve ", and get something like:
lt@lt-desktop:~/demonfinder$ jekyll serve
Configuration file: /home/lt/demonfinder/_config.yml
Source: /home/lt/demonfinder
Destination: /home/lt/demonfinder/_site
Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
Generating…
done in 0.34 seconds.
Auto-regeneration: enabled for ‘/home/lt/demonfinder’
Configuration file: /home/lt/demonfinder/_config.yml
Server address: http://127.0.0.1:4000/
Server running… press ctrl-c to stop.
( obviously I named my site " demonfinder" rather than " personal-site". )
it’s clearly showing some errors in ruby files, even tho I’ve name project as they wanted…
plus the server is set to http://localhost:8000/ I’ve also changed to port :4000 with no luck !
let’s see what’s gonna happen next
I just reversed the steps and it woreked for me. not the website link though.
jekyll serve
/home/ccuser/.gem/ruby/2.3.0/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/program.rb:31:in `go': invalid argument: --port (OptionParser::InvalidArgument)
from /home/ccuser/.gem/ruby/2.3.0/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary.rb:19:in `program'
from /home/ccuser/.gem/ruby/2.3.0/gems/jekyll-3.1.3/bin/jekyll:13:in `<top (required)>'
from /home/ccuser/.bin/jekyll:30:in `load'
from /home/ccuser/.bin/jekyll:30:in `<main>'
cd personal-website
bash: cd: personal-website: No such file or directory
$
I typed in “cd personal-website” and it let me go to step 2 and i put ‘jekyll serve’. Not a fan of the course AT ALL, makes everything complicated for no reason
The jekyll script is trying to pass in the options ‘–port’ and the ‘PORT’ environment variable. There doesn’t seem to be any $PORT set in the shell, so jekyll fails. I don’t know what port it’s supposed to end up on, but trying ‘env PORT=8000 jekyll serve’ didn’t seem to work. But if someone can tell us what port that should be, I think this would work.
jekyll serve command is not working. I am getting following error:
/home/ccuser/.gem/ruby/2.3.0/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/program.rb:31:in `go': invalid argument: --port (OptionParser::InvalidArgument)
from /home/ccuser/.gem/ruby/2.3.0/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary.rb:19:in `program'
from /home/ccuser/.gem/ruby/2.3.0/gems/jekyll-3.1.3/bin/jekyll:13:in `<top (required)>'
from /home/ccuser/.bin/jekyll:30:in `load'
from /home/ccuser/.bin/jekyll:30:in `<main>'
This error has been producing since 2019. We have reached in 2024. Please fix it.
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