Earlab

Coding for Art

Categories

Next, use categories (= keywords, tags) to group posts into topics, in octopress.

Categories should be listed in the header of a page. rake new_post['page name'] creates a heading in the poster for doing this. To input more than one category, or a category consisting of more than one word, use one of the formats explained in following example from http://octopress.org/docs/blogging/ :

Including Gists and Other Code

Embedding code, by pasting, including files, including gists in the octopress blog. Here are some notes about styles and ways of quoting code, and a test.

Checking Rake Deploy on GitHub

Update: rake gen_deploy generates and then deploys the site.

Had to remove the repository and create it again. Creating the README on github messed things up.

Result: Need to first run rake generate and then rake deploy to updates + publish the site. rake deploy alone leaves posts in an unformatted state. (Why?)