Getting Started

The Harvard Crimson Comp Website is a static site that is generated using Jekyll. It is deployed with GitHub Pages. To make modifications to the site, you will need ruby installed and the latest version of gem.
Make sure that you've already git cloned this repo to your computer and are currently in the home directory of the repo.
Once you've installed Ruby and ensured that you have the repo locally, add these two lines to the bottom of your ~/.bashrc to ensure that every gem is stored in a local directory.
```
export GEM_HOME=~/.gem
export GEM_PATH=~/.gem
```
Once you've done this, run the following commands:
- source ~/.bashrc (enables the environment variables set above)
- gem install bundler (install a gem that helps with package management)
- bundle install (installs all the required gems)
If any gem in particular gives you trouble during the bundle install process, you can try installing it directly with gem install [gemname].

Development

In the home directory, run bundle exec jekyll serve. This will start a local development server.
The default port is 4000 so visit http://localhost:4000 to see the site!
Any changes to CSS or HTML files will automatically trigger a rebuild, so no need to restart the server.
If you update the information in _config.yml, you will need to restart the server.

Since this website is hosted with GitHub Pages, you simply need to commit and push your changes to the master branch. This will automatically start a build process (note: this is only because GitHub Pages has automatic support for Jekyll).
Wait about a minute and check https://comp.thecrimson.com to verify the site has been updated!