This website is intended to offer stories and articles about how to treat docs like code, and lessons learned along the way. You are welcome to tell your story here as well.

You can directly submit a pull request using the fork-and-pull workflow to add an article, or submit to the justwriteclick/docs-like-code-stories repo if you want to follow a question-and-answer template.

Pushing to the build branch lets you preview the build output using Netlify. You must log into Netlify to view the preview deploy.

Pushing to the main branch builds output to https://www.docslikecode.com using Netlify. Auto publishing is on as a setting in Netlify, so deploys from main are published automatically.

Theme courtesy of https://mmistakes.github.io/so-simple-theme/

Test your additions and changes to content by running a local build.

On macOS you need to install brew, bundler.io, and Ruby version manager so that you can use a particular version of Ruby:

1. Use brew to install a Ruby version manager.

   $ brew install rbenv ruby-build
   

2. Add rbenv to bash so that it loads every time you open a terminal. If you are using macOS Catalina, your profile file may be .zshrc.

   $ echo 'if which rbenv > /dev/null; then eval "$(rbenv init -)"; fi' >> ~/.bash_profile
   

   or

   $ echo 'if which rbenv > /dev/null; then eval "$(rbenv init -)"; fi' >> ~/.zshrc
   

3. Source your .bash_profile file. If you are using macOS Catalina or later, your profile file may be .zshrc.

   $ source ~/.bash_profile
   

   or

   $ source ~/.zshrc
   

4. Install a currently supported Ruby version (example uses 3.2.2):

   $ rbenv install 3.2.2
   $ rbenv global 3.2.2
   $ rbenv version
   

   In return, you should see output like ruby 3.2.2 (set by /Users/username/docslikecode/.ruby-version).

5. Run gem install bundle to install the bundler gem, which helps with Ruby dependencies.

6. Run bundle install the first time you are in the docslikecode directory.

To build locally: Once you have completed preparing your environment, then you can build locally and review the site in your browser.

1. Run the serve command.

   $ bundle exec jekyll serve
   

2. Use the Server address URL http://127.0.0.1:4000/ in a browser to preview the content.

3. Press Ctrl+C in the serve terminal to stop the server.

Tip
Leave the serve terminal open and running. Every time you save changes to a file, it automatically regenerates the site so you can test the output immediately. The only file where changes require a restart is the _config.yml file.