Build Errors using the jekyll package in Atom

tl;dr: atom-runner does something to my Atom environment that gets lost when it’s taken away, and jekyll uses whatever it is. I don’t think this is necessarily the fault of jekyll but I’m not sure where else to report it.

Caveat: I’m no coder.

  • System: Mac OS X 10.10.4 [XCode not installed, though it may have been at one time]
  • Atom: Version 1.0.2
  • Jekyll: 1.0.0
  • Atom-Runner: 2.4.1
  1. For some reason I couldn’t get jekyll to build my site.
  2. I installed a script runner package (atom-runner) to check a few things from within Atom, and then jekyll worked.
  3. So I uninstalled atom-runner and restarted Atom and jekyll stopped working.
  4. Reinstalled atom-runner and jekyll works again

More details:

  • Try 1
    • Install jekyll
    • Set Build Command to jekyll, build, --drafts
    • Start Server
    • Response: Jekyll Binary Incorrect
    • Build doesn’t work, but server runs
  • Try 2
    • Set Build Command to my explicit path (gotten from running which jekyll and copying it over)
    • Start Server
    • Response: Jekyll site build failed!
    • Build doesn’t work, but server runs
  • Try 3
    • Set Build Command to my explicit path, with /gems/ replaced by /wrappers/ (gotten from Issue #2)
    • Start Server
    • Response: Jekyll Binary Incorrect
    • Build doesn’t work, but server runs
  • Try 4
    • Install atom-runner
    • Start Server
    • Response: Jekyll site build complete!
    • Everything works, including --drafts and build-on-save
  • Check
    • Disable atom-runner
    • Start Server
    • Response: Jekyll site build complete!
    • Everything works, including --drafts and build-on-save
    • RESTART ATOM
    • Start Server
    • Response: Jekyll Binary Incorrect
    • Reenable atom-runner
    • Start Server
    • Response: Jekyll site build complete!

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