Summary (“TL;DR”)
- Must be careful to always run
rake generatebeforerake deploy. - GitHub takes some time to update site after each push.
Details
After editing the site, always run rake generate before sending to the web via rake deploy. Occasionally the default name and subtitle of octopress “My Octopress Blog / A blogging framework for hackers” reappears on edited pages, apparently either because I forgot to run rake generate, or because it may have been overwritten by the watch process of rake. Testing this here, keeping a log of changes and trials.
Mysterious bugs. Is it GitHub caching the website, and delaying updates?
The site’s title reads (on some pages):
My Octopress Blog
A blogging framework for hackers.
But the index.html page of the site shows the correct title:
Earlab
Coding for Art
Why the difference?
Update
Creating the present post,
rerunning rake generate
and then rake deploy
fixed it.
Then re-running the same, after adding the present comments, but not creating new posts, the problem reappeared.
Jan 4, 2014 (4:26 PM): Testing again with a simple deploy – with G.D watching on the other side over the net.
Jan 4, 2014 (4:36 PM) : One more test.
Jan 4, 2014 (5:11 PM) : One more test – trying to reproduce the wrong headline. It seems to appear only in the updated pages (this one). Will it raise its head again just after running rake generate?
Jan 4, 2014 (5:18 PM) : Even though I let rake generate end, the present pages’s formatting is broken. Perhaps I should stop the rake watch process.
Jan 4, 2014 (5:21 PM) : Stopped rake watch. Trying rake deploy without running rake generate first.
Jan 4, 2014 (5:22 PM) : Broken formatting. Retrying: Running rake generate.
Jan 4, 2014 (5:23 PM) : Edit and rerun rake generate.
Jan 4, 2014 (5:25 PM) : (after rake deploy): Page renders correctly locally, but is broken on GitHub.
Jan 4, 2014 (5:27 PM) : Conclusions
- Must be careful to always generate after saving.
- GitHub takes some time to update site after each push.