In preparation of starting my work on Crispy (and documenting the whole process), I’m making Github Pages my primary blog. I should start doing some lexing and parsing work this week (should be able to parse arithmetic operations, assignments and conditional statements by end of this week). This is assuming I’m not lazy, which is always a dangerous thing to assume.

Jekyll takes a bit of effort to set up on Win7. I was hoping to just grab Ruby and gems on Cygwin to install it but that didn’t work out as planned. So here is how I made Jekyll work on Win7 64-bit.

Installing Ruby

Grab Ruby Installer from their downloads page. I used Ruby 1.9.3-p0. The install should go by smoothly.

Installing dev-kit

From the same downloads page above, download the development kit. I used DevKit-tdm-32-4.5.2-20110712-1620-sfx

This is just a 7z file so extract it to a folder (%DEVKITFOLDER%). Open a cmd window and @cd@ to this folder.

  ruby dk.rb init

Confirm that the config.yml contains your ruby path.

  ruby dk.rb install

Installing Jekyll

  gem install jekyll

Modifying Redcloth to work (only on 4.2.8)

Find redcloth.rb . It should be in a folder similar to C:\Ruby193\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\RedCloth-4.2.8\lib.

On line 10, replace with prefix = '' This will allow it to find `redcloth_scan.so which is in the same folder.

(Optional) Modifying spawn to not use Posix

Find albino.rb. You’ll need to patch it using this fix.

In case that page goes missing:

  diff --git a/lib/albino.rb b/lib/albino.rb<br />
  index 387c8e9..b77d55e 100644<br />
  --- a/lib/albino.rb<br />
  +++ b/lib/albino.rb<br />
  @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@<br />
  require 'posix-spawn'<br />
  +require 'rbconfig'<br />
  <br />
  <br />
  =begin Wrapper for the Pygments command line tool, pygmentize. =end<br />
  @@ -84,11 +85,21 @@ class Albino<br />
    proc_options":timeout" = options.delete(:timeout) || self.class.timeout_threshold<br />
    command = convert_options(options)<br />
    command.unshift(bin)<br />
  -    Child.new(*(command + "proc_options.merge(:input => write_target)"))<br />
  +    if RbConfig::CONFIG"'host_os'" =~ /(mingw|mswin)/<br />
  +      output = ''<br />
  +      IO.popen(command, mode='r+') do |p|<br />
  +        p.write @target<br />
  +        p.close_write<br />
  +        output = p.read.strip<br />
  +      end<br />
  +      output<br />
  +    else<br />
  +      Child.new(*(command + "proc_options.merge(:input => write_target)"))<br />
  +    end<br />
    end<br />
  <br />
    def colorize(options = {})<br />
  -    out = execute(options).out<br />
  +    out = RbConfig::CONFIG"'host_os'" =~ /(mingw|mswin)/ ? execute(options) : execute(options).out