rajivsambharya.github.io

Personal academic site: Jekyll 3 (github-pages gem) with the Minimal Mistakes theme, deployed by GitHub Pages from master.

Running locally

Run this from the repo root. It serves at http://localhost:4000 and live-reloads when a file is saved:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 PATH=/opt/homebrew/opt/ruby@3.2/bin:$PATH bundle exec jekyll serve --config _config.yml,_config.dev.yml

The first build takes about 10–20 seconds. Run the command in the background and poll curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" http://localhost:4000/ until it returns 200.

Why each part matters:

• Ruby 3.2, not the default Ruby. /opt/homebrew/bin/ruby is Ruby 4.x, and Jekyll 3 fails there (cannot load such file -- csv). The Homebrew ruby@3.2 keg already has all the gems installed.
• UTF-8 locale. Without it, the Sass build fails with Invalid US-ASCII character "\xE2" in assets/css/style.scss.
• _config.dev.yml sets url to localhost and turns off analytics.

If gems are missing (for example after a Ruby update), run PATH=/opt/homebrew/opt/ruby@3.2/bin:$PATH bundle install. Never run bundle install with the default Ruby 4: it rewrites Gemfile.lock with downgraded versions. If that happens, revert it with git checkout Gemfile.lock.

You can ignore these warnings: “No GitHub API authentication” and “install faraday-retry”.

Layout

• _pages/about.md is the home page, including news.
• _pages/publications.md holds the publications. Each entry is a hand-written <div class="pub-entry"> with buttons and CSS defined inline at the top of the file. The award badge style is .award-badge.
• files/CV.pdf is the CV, and slides/ holds talk slides.
• _site/ is build output and is gitignored.