ftlabs.github.io

GitHub hosted blog of FT Labs

Local setup

$ gem install jekyll bundler
$ bundle exec jekyll serve

On a successful jekyll serve the console will tell you what localhost URL you can find the local site on

Troubleshooting

Attempting to update a gem version to satisfy a Synk issue

$ bundle install --path vendor/bundle # to install gems without sudo and added vendor and .bundle to .gitignore and added vendor to exclude: in _config.yml (because annoying error msgs) $ bundle update github-pages # which updated Gemfile.lock where github-pages was the gem which pulled in the gem which needed to be updated... $ bundle exec jekyll serve # to check it runs locally

Attempting to run 'jekyll new ftlabs'

If you get this error:

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-2.0.1/lib/bundler/spec_set.rb:87:in `block in materialize': Could not find addressable-2.5.2 in any of the sources (Bundler::GemNotFound)

You may need to run bundle update to see if there were any issues (download or permissions) with your installation.

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If you get this error:

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-2.0.1/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:319:in `check_for_activated_spec!': You have already activated liquid 4.0.1, but your Gemfile requires liquid 3.0.6. Prepending `bundle exec` to your command may solve this. (Gem::LoadError)

You can run bundle exec jekyll new ftlabs to allow the command to complete

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[Archived] Notes on the Jeykll-ifying of labs.ft.com

https://ftlabs.github.io/

steps

recursive web suck of labs.ft.com

via https://darcynorman.net/2011/12/24/archiving-a-wordpress-website-with-wget/

using $ wget --mirror -p --html-extension --convert-links -e robots=off -P . http://labs.ft.com

build basic Jekyll instance

via https://jekyllrb.com/

$ gem install jekyll bundler
$ jekyll new ftlabs
$ cd ftlabs
~/ftlabs $ bundle exec jekyll serve

overlay full web suck

gratifyingly, kinda worked

process web sucked files

• write script to process WP posts into J posts
  • obtain year, month, post name from dirs of wp post
  • extract text title from wp post
  • construct new dirs and copy file under _posts/ex-wordpress
  • with front matter prepended
• tidy the WP pages into new dir, /ex-wordpress
• fix http origami+cloudflare+brightcove refs in new posts to use https
• split posts into content + layout
  • with new layout: wp-post
• ported some pages (contact-us, jobs) into wp-post layout
• tidy up refs to ?p=xxx / %3Fp= files
• add GA tracking back in
• recover missing pages: /articles/(ft-fastclick,the-economist,ft-columnflow)
• recover missing category pages, e.g. /category/technote
• rewrite About
• handle authors?
  • consider using collections
• tidy /author/ftlabs (default author)

ToDo

• port /asset/... videos to youtube because accessibility (having been moved to /asset/... because no longer Brightcove)