Blog - migrate to quarto
following migration guide from Hamel Hussain
Hamel just announced that fastpages will be discontinued as nbdev+quarto is now a valid option to provide a blogging platform. He has written a migration guide for that.
This is my walkthrough.
$ sudo apt install quarto
[sudo] password for guillaume:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
quarto is already the newest version (1.1.189).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
will have to see what will happen on platforms where I don't have admin rights.
Here Quarto is already present because I use it for nbdev2.
I create blog repo on github.
And I can now get it locally: git clone https://github.com/castorfou/blog.git (I am from office, only https is accepted)
cd ~/git/blog
quarto create-project --type website:blog .
quarto install extension quarto-ext/video
Issue here with quarto install when running from a corporate pc
$ quarto install extension quarto-ext/video
Sending fatal alert BadCertificate
ERROR: TypeError: error sending request for url (https://github.com/quarto-ext/video/archive/refs/heads/main.tar.gz): error trying to connect: invalid peer certificate contents: invalid peer certificate: UnknownIssuer
I have opened an issue at https://github.com/quarto-ext/video/issues/27
Your new repo will have a posts/ directory.
This is where you will copy all of your notebook and markdown posts from fastpages.
cp -r ../guillaume_blog/_notebooks/* posts/
cp -r ../guillaume_blog/_posts/* posts/
I have to fix some stuff here,
some markdown posts have empty description which is not allowed by the migration process.
To fix that I will run sed -i -- 's/^description:[[:space:]*]$/description:\ \"\"/' ~/git/blog/posts/*.md
Globally to identify culprit, I executed this:
chemin=`pwd`
for FILE in ../guillaume_blog/_posts/*; \
do echo $FILE; \
cp "$FILE" posts/; \
sed -i -- 's/^description:[[:space:]*]$/description:\ \"\"/' $chemin/posts/*.md; \
nbdev_migrate --path posts; \
rm -f posts/* 2> /dev/null; \
done;
but now that I know the migration issues, I can just execute:
# handle empty description in markdown files
chemin=`pwd`
sed -i -- 's/^description:[[:space:]*]$/description:\ \"\"/' $chemin/posts/*.md
# code should not be here
rm posts/notebook2script.py
rm -rf posts/exp
What was wrong with 2021-02-10-college-de-france-representations-parcimonieuses.md was accents in title. Removing é with e fixed it.
mkdir images
cp -r ../guillaume_blog/images/* images
cp -r ../guillaume_blog/images/copied_from_nb/* images
conda activate dataset_tools #this is an env with nbdev installed
#install last version of nbdev
pip install -U nbdev
nbdev_migrate --path posts
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.gitignore: we suggest adding_site/as well as dot files.* -
about.qmd: I reuse my former_pages/about.md -
profile.jpg: and use my profile picture
!cat ~/git/blog/.gitignore
quarto preview
Here we can fix many thinks, and auto update rendered pages is just excellent!
- move images from posts to posts/images (have to restart quarto preview after that)
- delete the 2 examples (welcome and post-with-code)
Will have to browse through all the site to see if all is properly rendered.
fix for broken links or Jekyll shortcodes (things with (I won't display liquid tags here because it will break nbdev)) that need to be converted to Quarto. Search the the Quarto documentation if you need help locating specific Quarto features.
There are 2 ways to publish. A straightforword one by calling quarto publish. And a more advanced one with github actions.
Using my corporate PC, quarto publish fails so I will give github actions a try.
quarto publish
quarto publish
This is ok when publishing with home PC.
But fails when publishing with corporate PC.
shared it with community at discord: https://discord.com/channels/689892369998676007/1020178609605984267/1020631703653462038
github actions
as explained in https://quarto.org/docs/publishing/quarto-pub.html#github-action
_publish.yml
First step is to set _publish.yml
- source: project
quarto-pub:
- id: "5f3abafe-68f9-4c1d-835b-9d668b892001"
url: "https://castorfou.github.io/blog/"
but what is this id?
Identical to error happening when installing quarto extension
https://github.com/quarto-ext/video/issues/27
$ quarto publish
? Publish update to: › https://castorfou.github.io/blog/ (GitHub Pages)
From https://github.com/castorfou/blog
* branch gh-pages -> FETCH_HEAD
origin https://github.com/castorfou/blog.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/castorfou/blog.git (push)
To https://github.com/castorfou/blog.git
+ 0a3710d...1aeaf23 HEAD -> gh-pages (forced update)
fatal: 'fadc274b' is not a working tree
NOTE: GitHub Pages sites use caching so you might need to click the refresh
button within your web browser to see changes after deployment.
(\) Deploying gh-pages branch to website (this may take a few minutes)Sending fatal alert BadCertificate
[✓] Deploying gh-pages branch to website (this may take a few minutes)
ERROR: TypeError: error sending request for url (https://castorfou.github.io/blog/.nojekyll): error trying to connect: invalid peer certificate contents: invalid peer certificate: UnknownIssuer
For context, I use quarto as a replacement of fastai/fastpages and followed a migration guide from Hamel Hussain asking for this installation.
And I'm in a corporate environment with transparent proxies and self signed certificates. My system has updated CERT in /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/, and SSL_CERT_FILE environment variable pointing to updated corporate pem.
$ quarto install extension quarto-ext/lightbox
Sending fatal alert BadCertificate
ERROR: TypeError: error sending request for url (https://github.com/quarto-ext/lightbox/archive/refs/heads/main.tar.gz): error trying to connect: invalid peer certificate contents: invalid peer certificate: UnknownIssuerIt fails with the same message.
When I run quarto publish I have the same issue.
One option is to use github actions. Need to find what is this id used in _publish.yml
if I have 2 images in 2 cells, it works in jupyter notebook but it is not rendered properly when published.
in jupyter, just typing url turns it into a link. Not with quarto.
anyway to do it ?
--test--