Nottingham New Theatre History Project

The history project aims to collect information on past shows, committees and other goings-on at The Nottingham New Theatre.

Install

To get the site running locally you will need a working Ruby environment, the bundler gem installed (sudo gem install bundler) and ImageMagick (usually sudo apt-get install imagemagick). Then do the following:

git clone https://github.com/newtheatre/history-project.git to clone the repo to your computer.

cd history-project to change into the directory.

bundle install to install all the Ruby dependencies the project needs to build.

npm install to install all the Node dependencies the project needs to build.

bundle exec jekyll serve --watch to build the site and serve it on http://localhost:4000 when done. File changes will trigger a rebuild.

Editing

See the site documentation

Useful Stuff

Renaming txt files

Rename all .txt files to .md in a directory:

for file in *.txt
do
mv $file `echo $file | sed 's/\(.*\.\)txt/\1md/'`
done

HTML Proofing

bundle exec htmlproof _site will check the site for mistakes in the generated output (broken links, missing alt attributes on images etc).

Repo Mirror

This repo is mirrored here: http://git.fullaf.com/will/history-project. It's kept up to date by Will's pushes so may be a little behind.