Setting up the Dev Environment

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Travis Howerton edited this page Feb 9, 2019 · 4 revisions

Instructions for Setting Up Dev Environment

For Mac OS X, see instructions here.
Leverage Homebrew to install the Ruby environment
Update the bash config

export GEM_HOME=$HOME/gems

export PATH=$HOME/gems/bin:$PATH

Make sure the .bashrc is updated from the above before install the gems
Then run, gem install jekyll bundler //should work without sudo

Launching the App

From the docs_jekyll_uswds folder
run the following command, bundle exec jekyll serve

Build the Site

bundle exec jekyll build
static files compile to the _sites folder