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Migrating my Jekyll site to Netlify

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Troubleshooting Netilify deploy

Ugggh I moved intermediateruby.com to Netlify a few months ago in like 10 minutes, so my primary site, josh.works, should take maybe 20, right?

I’m a few hours deep. Here’s what I get when Netlify tries to build:

I should have done the following first, instead of last:

9:58:21 AM:   1. Build command from Netlify app                             
9:58:21 AM: ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
9:58:21 AM: ​
9:58:21 AM: $ bundle exec jekyll build
9:58:22 AM: Configuration file: /opt/build/repo/_config.yml
9:58:22 AM:             Source: /opt/build/repo
9:58:22 AM:        Destination: /opt/build/repo/_site
9:58:22 AM:  Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
9:58:22 AM:       Generating...
9:58:23 AM:                     ------------------------------------------------
9:58:23 AM:       Jekyll 4.2.0   Please append `--trace` to the `build` command 
9:58:23 AM:                      for any additional information or backtrace. 
9:58:23 AM:                     ------------------------------------------------
9:58:23 AM: ​
9:58:23 AM: ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
9:58:23 AM:   "build.command" failed                                        
9:58:23 AM: ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
9:58:23 AM: ​
9:58:23 AM:   Error message
9:58:23 AM:   Command failed with exit code 1: bundle exec jekyll build
9:58:23 AM: ​
9:58:23 AM:   Error location
9:58:23 AM:   In Build command from Netlify app:
9:58:23 AM:   bundle exec jekyll build
9:58:23 AM: ​
9:58:23 AM:   Resolved config
9:58:23 AM:   build:
9:58:23 AM:     command: bundle exec jekyll build
9:58:23 AM:     commandOrigin: ui
9:58:23 AM:     publish: /opt/build/repo/_site
9:58:23 AM:     publishOrigin: ui

So, first thing I did was go into the build settings and update the build command, to append --trace to it:

netlify build

Now I get:

10:18:23 AM: $ bundle exec jekyll build --trace
10:18:23 AM: Configuration file: /opt/build/repo/_config.yml
10:18:23 AM:             Source: /opt/build/repo
10:18:23 AM:        Destination: /opt/build/repo/_site
10:18:23 AM:  Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
10:18:23 AM:       Generating...
10:18:24 AM: /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/jekyll-crosspost-to-medium-0.1.16/lib/jekyll-crosspost-to-medium.rb:44:in `generate': MediumCrossPostGenerator: Environment variables not found (ArgumentError)
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/jekyll-4.2.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:193:in `block in generate'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/jekyll-4.2.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:191:in `each'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/jekyll-4.2.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:191:in `generate'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/jekyll-4.2.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:79:in `process'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/jekyll-4.2.0/lib/jekyll/command.rb:28:in `process_site'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/jekyll-4.2.0/lib/jekyll/commands/build.rb:65:in `build'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/jekyll-4.2.0/lib/jekyll/commands/build.rb:36:in `process'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/jekyll-4.2.0/lib/jekyll/command.rb:91:in `block in process_with_graceful_fail'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/jekyll-4.2.0/lib/jekyll/command.rb:91:in `each'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/jekyll-4.2.0/lib/jekyll/command.rb:91:in `process_with_graceful_fail'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/jekyll-4.2.0/lib/jekyll/commands/build.rb:18:in `block (2 levels) in init_with_program'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/mercenary-0.4.0/lib/mercenary/command.rb:221:in `block in execute'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/mercenary-0.4.0/lib/mercenary/command.rb:221:in `each'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/mercenary-0.4.0/lib/mercenary/command.rb:221:in `execute'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/mercenary-0.4.0/lib/mercenary/program.rb:44:in `go'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/mercenary-0.4.0/lib/mercenary.rb:21:in `program'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/gems/jekyll-4.2.0/exe/jekyll:15:in `<top (required)>'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/bin/jekyll:23:in `load'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/bin/jekyll:23:in `<main>'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:22:in `eval'
	from /opt/build/cache/bundle/ruby/2.5.0/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:22:in `<main>'

Nailed it - a gem I hardly use is missing an environment variable. I’m just going to delete it for now, and re-try.

[…]

Not worth trying to clean out the gem, I did git rebase -i HEAD~~ to delete the last commit (deleting the crosspost-to-medium gem), and instead added the environment variables to Netlify.

I just copied/pasted from my .evn (A hidden file, it’s not tracked in Git, but I copied/obfuscated the values into env.sample in this commit)

…

Huzzah! The site builds. We’re good to go.

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