A big part of my job since 2017 has been supporting a Ruby on Rails app. ‘Til now I’ve gotten by on my infrastructure, server, and troubleshooting skills. Ruby on Rails has been a blind spot for me, though, and it’s time to fix that.
Back in, probably, 2012 I came across a paper about action mapping that concisely listed “Leadership’s new roles in an environment of unpredictability”. Three bullet points cemented in my mind what effective leaders needed to do.
I made new notes about setting up a GitHub Pages site locally. With fewer containers this time. Special thanks to @BDHU for updating the Minimal theme with dark mode and attractive-yet-simple links lists.
Coming back to GitHub Pages after nearly four years has been fun. And educational. Spending a little time around Ruby, and a lot of time around GitHub, has filled in some illuminating perspective.
These are my notes about setting up your GitHub Pages site locally…