Blog about engineering and product at HackerEarth. Visit engineering.hackerearth.com.

Introduction:

We write engineering blog posts whenever we build something cool, which is always. So every now and then we'll be writing engineering & news blog posts.

Setup:

Both Engineering blog and news blog have the same setup instructions. Please follow steps mentioned below to setup news blog locally:

1. Make sure you have access to respective repositories.

2. Clone the repository once you have access:

git clone https://github.com/HackerEarth/engineering.hackerearth.com.git

3. As mentioned above we use Jekyll to power our news/engineering blog, install Jekyll using the following command:

sudo gem install jekyll

or

sudo apt install jekyll

4. If you are unable to install jekyll, install rouge first

sudo gem install rouge

5. You may need to install kramdown also.

sudo gem install kramdown

6. Start the server by executing:

jekyll serve # It will start the server on: http://127.0.0.1:4000

To start the server on different port execute:

jekyll serve --port=5001 # It will start the server on: http://127.0.0.1:5001

7. Server should be running now so setup is complete.

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Q. How to write a new post or edit existing ones?

Please follow the instructions mentioned below to get started with writing news/engineering posts.

1. I assume you have already cloned the respective repository, so navigate to that directory.

2. There are two main sub directories (_posts and images) that you will be altering generally while adding or editing posts.

3. If you do not know how to write markdown please learn: [[ http://markdown-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/basics.html | Markdown Basics ]]. This covers almost everything to write a beautiful news post.

4. All markdown content (posts) goes to _posts directory and images goes to images. //Please check out how other posts have been written//.

5. The name of markdown file starts with date. For example: For [[ http://news.hackerearth.com/2016/02/08/filter-candidates-easily-in-reports/ | this post ]] the filename is: 2016-02-08-filter-candidates-easily-in-reports.md.

6. If you have already added your content to _posts/ named as 2016-05-26-demo-news-post.md, it will be accessible on: http://127.0.0.1:4000/2016/05/26/demo-news-post/.(No need to restart your server, just refresh your browser.)

Important Notes:

1. Please make sure your news post is successfully rendering on your local before pushing it to master.

2. Add as many images or/and videos possible to explain your content.

3. Proof read your content again, you can take help from your peers.