Local Setup Instructions

Overview

Teaching: 30 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• How can I set up a local server to check my lesson

Objectives

• Learn how to set up locally

Instructions for local setup to build your lessons - very useful

Carpentries instructions

The Carpentries provide excellent instructions and examples at: https://carpentries.github.io/lesson-example/setup.html.
Carpentries has moved on to an ‘R’ based system which we are not using. We are still using this older format.

Do local setup for local rendering (optional)

Follow the instructions https://carpentries.github.io/lesson-example/setup.html#setup-for-local-rendering-of-the-lessons-optional for setup on your local machine - in principle this is optional but in practice it is really helpful. You are going to need ruby and pyYAML. I used conda on a mac but they have instructions for Windows, Mac and UNIX.

Alert

At this point you should stop following their instructions and start using our github template to avoid overwriting DUNE specific items.

Key Points

• This is the hard part, need to get ruby