Cannot Build the site on the preview server

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Hi, I am a beginner on jekyll. I am following the documentation advice to Build the site on the preview server.
Here is what a did :

  • install the last version of ruby
    $ruby -v → ruby 2.4.1p111 (2017-03-22 revision 58053) [x86_64-darwin16]
    $ gem --version → 2.6.14
  • Install Jekyll
    $gem install jekyll bundler → Version of jekyll : jekyll-3.6.2

When I try to build the site on the preview server (bundle exec jekyll serve) there is the following error :

jekyll 3.6.2 | Error: (/Users/admin/Documents/Perso/Site-Internet/Jekyll/inger/_config.yml): did not find expected key while parsing a block mapping at line 16 column 1

the line 16 is the first line uncommented that shoul be processed. It is this one

title: Inger Hair at Home at Aix en Provence (line 16)

I don’t see what can be wrong. Thank you in advance for your answers

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If I had to guess it’s the parenthesis. Put it in quotes instead so it is treated as a string.

title: "Inger Hair at Home at Aix en Provence (line 16)"
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Hi mmistakes and thank you for your answer. there isn’t any parenthesis. It was just an information of the line number for this post. And even when I put everything in quotes, I have the same error

4

Can you share your entire _config.yml file or link to a public repo? YAML can be very unforgiving and there is likely an indent or missing colon or something similar around line 16.

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Hi mmistakes, and thank you for your answer. When I comment line 16 the error is at line 17. Here is the _config.yml file

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Hi mmistakes, I found the solution : there were extra spaces at the exclude line. Now I am facing another issue which is the following

When I try to run

bundle exec jekyll serve

I have an error message which is the following

Dependency Error: Yikes! It looks like you don’t have /Users/admin/Documents/Perso/Site-Internet/Jekyll/inger/_plugins/amp_filter.rb
or one of its dependencies installed. In order to use Jekyll as currently configured, you’ll need to install this gem. The full error
message from Ruby is: ‘cannot load such file – nokogiri’ If you run into trouble, you can find helpful resources at https://jekyllrb.com/help/!

(I have the plugin amp_filter.rb and at the beginning of amp_filter.rb file, I have the following code

require 'nokogiri’
require ‘fastimage’

)

as it says

‘cannot load such file – nokogiri’

So I installed nokogiri

MBP-de-Admin:Jekyll admin$ gem install nokogiri
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
/Users/admin/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.4.1/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.4.0/rubygems/ext/builder.rb:76: warning: Insecure world writable dir /Users/admin in PATH, mode 040777
Successfully installed nokogiri-1.8.1
Parsing documentation for nokogiri-1.8.1
Installing ri documentation for nokogiri-1.8.1
Done installing documentation for nokogiri after 13 seconds
1 gem installed

And I have still the same error. Thank you in advance for your answers

7

Have you reached out to the Jekyll AMP developer? This is a different issue from the bad YAML in your config file.

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try googling just that - this may help though it is about rails not jekyll and is a couple years old:

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Instead of adding the plugin .rb files to your _plugins folder try removing them. Then install the gem version of the plugin by adding gem “amp-jekyll” to your Gemfile.

Run bundle update then try to build your site with bundle exec jekyll build.

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Hi mmistakes and rdyar , thank you for your answer. I googled it and I followed the instruction I read. I did

gem install nokogiri

and checked that it was added (gem list)

and when I run

bundle exec jekyll serve

I have the same error

Configuration file: /Users/admin/Documents/Perso/Site-Internet/Jekyll/inger/_config.yml
Dependency Error: Yikes! It looks like you don’t have /Users/admin/Documents/Perso/Site-Internet/Jekyll/inger/_plugins/amp_filter.rb or one of its dependencies installed. In order to use Jekyll as currently configured, you’ll need to install this gem. The full error message from Ruby is: ‘cannot load such file – nokogiri’ If you run into trouble, you can find helpful resources at Redirecting…!
jekyll 3.6.2 | Error: /Users/admin/Documents/Perso/Site-Internet/Jekyll/inger/_plugins/amp_filter.rb

Considering adding gem “amp-jekyll” (and other gems) in Gemfile ,that was what I did at the beginning but none of the gem in Gemfile were running. I had the error

MBP-de-Admin:inger admin$ bundle exec jekyll serve
Could not find gem ‘amp-jekyll (= 1.0.2)’ in any of the gem sources listed in your Gemfile.

(and also the same error for the other gem)

So I chose to add the rb files in _plugins folder

Assuming for the time being that I chose to add rb files in _plugins folder, can you give me a way to solve my issue ? Thanks in advance

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That’s probably because you did not run bundle install after…
So, the solution involves the following:

  • Remove _plugins/ directory
  • Add amp-jekyll to your Gemfile
    source "https://rubygems.org"

gem "jekyll", "~> 3.6"
gem "minima", "~> 2.0"

group :jekyll_plugins do
  gem "amp-jekyll"
end
  • Ensure the current directory in your terminal is the Jekyll project directory
  • Run bundle install
  • Start jekyll preview server
    bundle exec jekyll serve
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Hi ashmaroll. Thank you very much for your answer. I did what you said and it works.
The only gem that I didn’t suceed in loading was “jekyll-ga” (https://github.com/developmentseed/jekyll-ga).

Do you think that putting

  gem "chronic"  # with jekyll-ga  # installed
  gem "google-api-client"  # with jekyll-ga  # installed

will be enough to use “jekyll-ga” ?

Another question. I found this ressource page : https://rubygems.org/gems?letter=J&page=42
Do you think there are all exhaustive gems that I can use in Gemfile ?

Finally, how can I grant you “a good answer” ?:slightly_smiling_face:

13

Hi again,

I don’t see also how to add “jekyll-ideal-image-slider”
(https://github.com/jekylltools/jekyll-ideal-image-slider)

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Doesn’t look like this plugin has been “gemified”. Meaning you don’t install it with Bundler but rather copy over its _plugins folder over into the root of your project.

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Hi mmistakes and thank you for your answer. And what about “jekyll-ga” ?

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jekyll-ga has not been updated for over 4 years now… and from the source-code, it doesn’t look like it will work with Jekyll 3.x series… (Jekyll::Post) had been removed prior to shipping Jekyll 3.0.0