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    • Push a new branch up to GitHub (if it doesn’t exist there yet)
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    • Delete a git branch
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    • Setup Rails 8 w/ SQLite & Solid Cable, Cache & Queue
    • Stripe Pay Gem
      • Running Stripe Test Mode Locally
    • Setup new Rails app
      • Start a new Rails App (v8)
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      • Clone Instrumental Template to a new app
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    • Live reloading with webpack-dev-server
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      • Setup Sidekiq in a Rails 8 app
      • Clear sidekiq queue
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      • ZipMessage Tests Commands
      • Can't run rspec tests: ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: PG::DuplicateTable: ERROR: relation "thing"
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    • Ultrahook for testing email to app
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      • rspec error: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version
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        • Postgres not started (PG:ConnectionBad error)
    • OLD
      • Start a new Rails app (v6)
        • Install Tailwind CSS on a Rails Project
        • Install Stimulus.js on Rails
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        • Install Devise Masqerade
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  • Forge / Statamic
    • Run Statamic (for Clarityflow) locally
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    • Production deploy failed. Resolve by SSH & resolve git conflicts.
  • Old (not using anymore)
    • Heroku
      • Push to Heroku
        • Can't push to heroku. Updates were rejected because the remote contains work you dont have locally
      • Create a Heroku App from command line
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    • Middleman
      • Start a new middleman site from my template
    • Jekyll
      • Start a new Jekyll site from my template
      • Run and work on my Jekyll site
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      • Setup a Jekyll site on Netlify
      • Push to Staging & Production on Netlify
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      • Start a new Laravel app
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      • Icomoon Fonts in Rails
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    • Run a rails project on a new mac for the first time
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  • Cursor
    • .cursorrules for Rails + Linear issue writing
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    • Install Homebrew for both arm64 and x86
    • Installing Ruby
    • Customize terminal prompt for zsh to show git branch
    • Open terminal in arm64 or Rosetta mode
    • Install Homebrew
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  • 1) cd to my sites folder:
  • 2) Clone the repo for my template site
  • 3) cd into that new site:
  • 4) Bundle Install to install the gems for this project
  • 5) npm install to install the javascript dependecies
  • 6) Remove the template github repo from the current origin
  • 7) Set up the new repo on github
  • 8) Make first commit to the new GitHub repo:
  • 9) Run the server in terminal tab 1:
  • 10) Run the watcher (for live reloading of changes) in terminal tab 2:
  1. Old (not using anymore)
  2. Jekyll

Start a new Jekyll site from my template

PreviousJekyllNextRun and work on my Jekyll site

Last updated 5 years ago

My template site comes with the following pre-installed:

  • Tailwind

  • Stimulus JS

  • Webpack

  • Laravel Mix (has nothing to do with laravel, just makes building assets easier)

  • Postcss

  • Icomoon fonts all set up

  • ... (continuously improving it over time) ...

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1) cd to my sites folder:

cd ~/code/active/sites

2) Clone the repo for my template site

git clone https://github.com/CasJam/jekyll-template.git new-site-name

3) cd into that new site:

cd new-site-name

4) Bundle Install to install the gems for this project

bundle install

5) npm install to install the javascript dependecies

npm install

6) Remove the template github repo from the current origin

git remote rm origin

7) Set up the new repo on github

  1. Log into my github.com account

  2. "Create New Repository"

  3. Name it the same as my projectname

  4. Get commands from the instructions under "...or push an existing repository from the command line."

8) Make first commit to the new GitHub repo:

git add .
git commit -m "first commit"
git push --set-upstream origin master

9) Run the server in terminal tab 1:

npm start

10) Run the watcher (for live reloading of changes) in terminal tab 2:

npm run watch
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