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Welcome to Jekyll, again!

Updated my blog’s Ruby version and bundle. Just a couple of snags along the way.

Prep

After brew upgrade, had to restart postgres brew services restart postgresql@15

Also couldn’t seem to launch VSCodium even after updating it via brew: brew upgrade vscodium --cask

“Apple can’t check app for malicious software” Using an app that can’t be checked for malicious software might harm your Mac or compromise your privacy.

Turns out had to actually grant exception in System Settings > Privacy & Security in the sidebar, then scroll down to “Open Anyway”. Security!

Also, when running bundle update, ran into messages like Bundler 2.4.19 is running, but your lockfile was generated with 2.5.18. Installing Bundler 2.5.18 and restarting using that version., and then it went and failed on some more gems. Solution: was to remove Gemfile.lock and regen it by re-running bundle install.

Now ready to actually upgrade Ruby

rbenv install 3.3.5

  • Need to prepend be (alias for bundle exec) to jekyll serve once getting thru bundle update.

  • Re-add _drafts directory.
  • Update _config.yml, permalink: /blog/:title.html
  • Check the links n assets n stuff

Now I’m seeing a new-to-me Netlify feature: Branch deploys!🎉

This will let me see build errors on branch rather than having to push to prod (main).

Now seeing something new is wrong with the new branch’s build:

An error occurred while installing bigdecimal (3.1.8), and Bundler cannot
continue.

In Gemfile:
  jemoji was resolved to 0.13.0, which depends on
    html-pipeline was resolved to 2.14.3, which depends on
      activesupport was resolved to 7.2.1, which depends on
        bigdecimal
Error during gem install
5:32:07 PM: Failing build: Failed to install dependencies
5:32:07 PM: Failed during stage 'Install dependencies': dependency_installation script returned non-zero exit code: 1

Things I’ve tried from Netlify config side to troubleshoot:

  • Update node Netlify uses from 8.x(!) to 20.x
  • Activate the aforementioned branch deploys.
  • Naturally check the Build image Linux version. Rats, this was already on latest selection possible Ubuntu Focal 20.04 (default). Only other option was Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 (deprecated).
  • I found where to make the deploy logs private, not sure why that isn’t the default. While it’s not a huge deal to my personal threat model, pretty sure I wouldn’t want my biz out there like that..
  • To be continued…

TODOS:

  • Promote synergy
  • Post excerpts on index page
  • Update /history?
  • Finally get around to whatever Googs replaced Universal Analytics with.
  • WHY ARE THESE CHECKBOXES SHOWING THE LIST BULLETS
  • ???
  • Profit

UPDATE!

I managed to deploy the branch by simply downgrading ruby version to 3.1.6, (originally was 3.1.3 so still an upgrade.) Tried 3.2.5 for shits and giggles, but bundler failed with some weird stuff. So I just said, ‘screw it’.

Was inspired to try downgrading from this Stack Overflow answer, you know, that poor-man’s LLM, pounding digital pavement the old-school way.

Seems there were quite a few breaking changes in Ruby 3.2.0 so I’m still not 100% on what the issue was 🤷

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Jekyll, BlogOps, personal