[Neuroimaging] Website Update

Sat Aug 22 20:42:29 CEST 2015

Ok, yeah. That's not acceptable :) This is very similar to Django, which I
know well. I'll think over a solution.

Really, there's got to be a way to pass the baseurl from github, circle.ci,
etc. Will investigate further.

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 11:34 AM, vanessa sochat <vsochat at stanford.edu>
wrote:

> The "ugly" solution is to use different templates for the pages not at the
> base url, and then you can just hard code the page one level up. For
> example, in the header
> <https://github.com/vsoch/nipy-jekyll/blob/master/_includes/head.html>:
>
> a path currently looks like:
>
> <script src="{{ "js/tipsy.js" | prepend: site.baseurl }}"></script>
>
> and for subpages, we would make a new header_subpage.html with a path like:
>
> <script src="{{ "../js/tipsy.js" | prepend: site.baseurl }}"></script>
>
> But then when you change anything about the design, you have to change it
> in two places. I started implementing this, felt sick to my stomach at how
> awful the idea was, and completely converted everything back :) I think it
> could be possible to use this weird language <http://liquidmarkup.org/>
> so that all pages detect their level. For example, take a look here
> <https://github.com/vsoch/nipy-jekyll/commit/2ac70c6dee2372be6676848aac9766459f4c57c2#diff-e921a390257abd15c1742300f2417b13R14>
> at a solution I figured out using the syntax - but it fails in that the if
> statement is hard coded.
>
> Also take a look here
> <https://github.com/vsoch/nipy-jekyll/commit/c72756afad2bc4cb57d893f76e9dd4f425b79218#diff-4ea7a794e4d7b7503ac520689daeb20bL17>
> - for the posts we can get the URLs programatically, but I wasn't sure how
> to do that for "non-post" pages.
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Ben Cipollini <bcipolli at ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
>> Oops, I spoke too soon. Sounds like circle.ci is very important. :)
>>
>> Vanessa, you had an idea for an "ugly" solution for the original issue?
>> May I ask what that is? Looks like others are simply using --baseurl="" on
>> the command-line.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 11:19 AM, vanessa sochat <vsochat at stanford.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ariel,
>>>
>>> Circle is needed to preview PRs.
>>>
>>> On your fork take a look at the individual blog pages - the path goes to
>>> the base and it is not found. And then on circle since the baseurl is "/"
>>> it would be quite broken looking.
>>>
>>> Right now adding a project would mean adding an entry to the data file
>>> <https://github.com/vsoch/nipy-jekyll/blob/master/_data/packages.yml>,
>>> and then copying a template page for it (for example
>>> <https://github.com/vsoch/nipy-jekyll/blob/master/sdm.html>, you would
>>> just need the header and to name the page corresponding to its tag in the
>>> data file). The navigation, front page, and D3 are rendered from that file,
>>> but I didn't see a nice way to generate an entire page for the package. The
>>> reason I had originally chosen flask is because a person could just add a
>>> line to a tsv file, and the application would be smart enough to make the
>>> page if the user did not. I don't see a way to achieve that with these more
>>> syntax based frameworks.
>>>
>>> For the content and more tweaks to the design - let's hold off on
>>> jumping into that until we get this url issue worked out! I am totally game
>>> for adjusting the design, layout, content for whatever people think is best.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Vanessa
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Ariel Rokem <arokem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Vanessa,
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for the delay in responding.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 3:18 PM, vanessa sochat <vsochat at stanford.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is an update to the site. I've ported it into jekyll
>>>>> <https://github.com/vsoch/nipy-jekyll>, and tested the template on
>>>>> iphone and computer (seems reasonable). I've also gotten it to render the
>>>>> artifacts on circle.ci <https://circleci.com/gh/vsoch/nipy-jekyll/32>,
>>>>> so we could preview PRs (Click "artifact" and then find home.html
>>>>> <https://circle-artifacts.com/gh/vsoch/nipy-jekyll/32/artifacts/0/home/ubuntu/nipy-jekyll/_site/home.html>).
>>>>> However, I've run into a bug with regard to absolute vs. relative paths -
>>>>> when you click the demo link above, the "posts" not being at the base url
>>>>> means they will not be linked or render correctly (for example, here
>>>>> is a link
>>>>> <https://circle-artifacts.com/gh/vsoch/nipy-jekyll/32/artifacts/0/home/ubuntu/nipy-jekyll/_site/code-syntax/index.html>
>>>>> to a post on circle, and you won't see styling because the css/js links are
>>>>> broken)
>>>>>
>>>>> The site works perfectly given that we aren't serving it at a relative
>>>>> path, eg:
>>>>>
>>>>> jekyll serve --baseurl="/"
>>>>>
>>>>> And the challenge is finding a solution that will render locally, on
>>>>> github pages, and circle.ci, and what we need, I think, is some kind
>>>>> of liquid syntax that will detect when we are in a subfolder and render
>>>>> appropriately. I've been messing around with it for 7 hours today and can't
>>>>> figure it out, and I need to ask for help. Could someone else take a look?
>>>>> Likely someone with more experience than me with Jekyll could figure this
>>>>> out in a heartbeat (Ariel?) The plan right now, I'd like to propose, would
>>>>> be to figure out this bug, get it onto a (test) github pages, tweak the
>>>>> details of the content, make proper documentation, and then release to
>>>>> official github pages.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Why do we need CircleCI here? I am actually not sure what the issue is,
>>>> but here's the site rendered through gh-pages on my fork of your repo:
>>>>
>>>> http://arokem.github.io/nipy-jekyll/
>>>>
>>>> I did also add a Gemfile to the repo, and that might matter: I believe
>>>> Github pages serves jekyll through a call to "bundle exec jekyll serve"
>>>> (see here: https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-with-pages/).
>>>>
>>>> One comment about the content: I would prefer to have a front page that
>>>> just states what this thing is, and the projects on a separate page. I
>>>> would like for it to be *super* easy to add projects. The whole idea is
>>>> that the NIPY community is not a static list of projects, but an
>>>> ever-evolving ecosystem.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Ariel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>>
>>>>> Vanessa
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Vanessa Villamia Sochat
>>>>> Stanford University
>>>>> (603) 321-0676
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