Update Jekyll configuration and workflows for improved deployment and…

… theme settings

.github/workflows/jekyll-gh-pages.yml

@@ -1,28 +1,20 @@
-# .github/workflows/jekyll-gh-pages.yml
 name: Deploy Jekyll with GitHub Pages dependencies preinstalled
 
 on:
-  # Runs on pushes targeting the default branch
   push:
     branches: ["main"]
-
-  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
   workflow_dispatch:
 
-# Sets permissions of the GITHUB_TOKEN to allow deployment to GitHub Pages
 permissions:
   contents: read
   pages: write
   id-token: write
 
-# Allow only one concurrent deployment, skipping runs queued between the run in-progress and latest queued.
-# However, do NOT cancel in-progress runs as we want to allow these production deployments to complete.
 concurrency:
   group: "pages"
   cancel-in-progress: false
 
 jobs:
-  # Build job
   build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
@@ -33,12 +25,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build with Jekyll
         uses: actions/jekyll-build-pages@v1
         with:
-          source: ./
+          source: ./docs
           destination: ./_site
       - name: Upload artifact
         uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3
 
-  # Deployment job
   deploy:
     environment:
       name: github-pages
@@ -48,4 +39,4 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
         id: deployment
-        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4
+        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4

docs/Gemfile

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+source "https://rubygems.org"
+
+gem "github-pages", group: :jekyll_plugins
+gem "jekyll-feed", "~> 0.12"
+gem "minima"
+
+group :jekyll_plugins do
+  gem "jekyll-feed"
+  gem "jekyll-seo-tag"
+end
+
+# Windows and JRuby does not include zoneinfo files, so bundle the tzinfo-data gem
+# and associated library.
+platforms :mingw, :x64_mingw, :mswin, :jruby do
+  gem "tzinfo", ">= 1"
+  gem "tzinfo-data"
+end
+
+# Performance-booster for watching directories on Windows
+gem "wdm", "~> 0.1.1", :platforms => [:mingw, :x64_mingw, :mswin]
+
+# Lock `http_parser.rb` gem to `v0.6.x` on JRuby builds since newer versions of the gem
+# do not have a Java counterpart.
+gem "http_parser.rb", "~> 0.6.0", :platforms => [:jruby]

docs/_config.yml

@@ -3,11 +3,10 @@ description: Automation Engineer at IBM Cloud | Making Cloud Development Easier
 url: "https://dbdev.ie"
 baseurl: ""
 
-# Build settings
-markdown: kramdown
-remote_theme: pages-themes/[email protected]
+# Theme settings
+theme: minima
 plugins:
-  - jekyll-remote-theme
+  - jekyll-feed
   - jekyll-seo-tag
 
 # Author information
@@ -17,16 +16,36 @@ author:
   github: daniel-butler-irl
   linkedin: daniel-butler-1a525832
 
-# Navigation
-navigation:
-  - title: About
-    url: /
-  - title: Projects
-    url: /projects
-  - title: Blog
-    url: /blog
+# Build settings
+markdown: kramdown
+kramdown:
+  input: GFM
+  hard_wrap: false
 
+# Collections
 collections:
   projects:
     output: true
     permalink: /projects/:path/
+
+# Defaults
+defaults:
+  - scope:
+      path: ""
+      type: "posts"
+    values:
+      layout: "post"
+  - scope:
+      path: ""
+    values:
+      layout: "default"
+
+# Exclude from processing
+exclude:
+  - Gemfile
+  - Gemfile.lock
+  - node_modules
+  - vendor/bundle/
+  - vendor/cache/
+  - vendor/gems/
+  - vendor/ruby/