Chuck Grimmett

Today I learned:

Upgrading Jekyll from 2.x to 3.x

• The upgrade itself is simple: In Terminal, run gem update jekyll. Use sudo if you run into permissions issues like I did.
• If you use pagination in any of your templates, you’ll now have to add gems: [jekyll-paginate] to the # Plugins section of your _config.yaml or else your site won’t compile. This wasn’t necessary in 2.x.

Making an index for my TIL posts in Liquid

I wanted to have an index for my TIL posts that was organized in two ways: reverse chronologically and by tag. Here is how I’m handling that with Liquid:

	### Recent TIL Posts
	
	<ul>
	  {% for post in site.categories['TIL'] %}
	    <li>
		<span class="til-date">{{ post.date | date: '%d %b %y' }}</span>:  <a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a>
	    </li>
	  {% endfor %}
	</ul>
	
	---
	
	### TIL posts by category
	
	{% for tag in site.tags %}
	  {% assign t = tag | first %}
	  {% assign posts = tag | last %}
	
	#### {{ t }}
	<ul>
	{% for post in posts %}
	  {% if post.tags contains t %}
	    <li>
	       <span class="til-date">{{ post.date | date: '%d %b %y' }}</span>:  <a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a>
	    </li>
	  {% endif %}
	{% endfor %}
	</ul>
	{% endfor %}

Notes:

• The general structure of the tags method comes from Joe Kampschmidt. I started searching when it didn’t work the same way as the categories method I wrote earlier.
• This method for displaying tags works because I’m only tagging my TIL posts. Everything else goes into categories. If I were to tag other kinds of posts, I’d need to first limit by posts in site.categories['TIL']
• Category names are case sensitive.
• You can display raw Liquid markup without it rendering by wrapping it in {%raw%} and {%endraw%}.