chrisdembia / eme134

Jason K. Moore's UC Davis Vehicle Stability Course Website

The course website for Jason K. Moore's University of California, Davis Vehicle Stability course (EME 134). The rendered version can be viewed at:

http://moorepants.github.io/eme134

Editing Guide

• The website is built using Pelican. Review the Pelican documentation to get familar with how to create pages and articles.
• The source files are in the git branch called master. This is the default branch of the repository. The HTML files are generated via doctr and pushed to the gh-pages branch, which is automatically seved to https://moorepants.github.io/eme171. You should not have to ever manually edit files in the gh-pages branch.
• All articles, pages, and similar content should be written in reStructuredText. See the Sphinx reStructuredText primer to learn the syntax.
• All changes, in general, should be submitted as Github pull requests. Don't commit directly to the master branch.
• Binary Assets such as images, videos, etc should be served from an external hosting site. Ask Jason about using his Dreamhost DreamObject bucket. He'll set it up for multi-user access when needed. Do not commit binary assets to this repository.
• You can edit and add rst files directly in the contents directory using the Github interface. The small pencil on files lets you edit and submit pull requests. Just above the directory view has buttons for adding files. See these instructions: https://help.github.com/en/articles/editing-files-in-your-repository

Building Locally

It is good practice to build the documentation locally so that you can review change before submitting a pull request.

Install pelican with conda (or pip if you prefer):

$ conda install pelican

Clone the theme repository:

$ git clone --branch mechmotum [email protected]:mechmotum/pelican-alchemy.git

Note the path to the theme, e.g.:

/home/my_username/pelican-alchemy

Clone the pelican-plugins repository:

$ git clone [email protected]:getpelican/pelican-plugins.git

Note the path to the plugins directory, e.g.:

/home/my_username/pelican-plugins

Clone this repository and change into the new directory:

$ git clone [email protected]:moorepants/eme134.git
$ cd eme134/

Create a configuration file called config.yml and add the full path to where you installed the theme:

$ echo "THEME_PATH: /home/my_username/pelican-alchemy" > local-config.yml
$ echo "PLUGIN_PATHS: /home/my_username/pelican-plugins" >> local-config.yml

Now you can build and serve the documentation with:

$ make devserver

If this succeeds you can open the website in your web browser at http://localhost:8000.

While the server is running you can change the website source files and they will be build automatically. Refresh your web browser to view the changes.

To stop the web server press <CTRL + C> or type make stopserver.

LICENSE

This repository is licensed under the CC-BY 4.0 license.