Elixir School
Lessons about the Elixir programming language, inspired by Twitter's Scala School.
Lessons can now be viewed on ElixirSchool.com.
Feedback and participation is welcome. Please see Contributing for more details on how to get involved.
Running
ElixirSchool.com is generated using Jekyll. To run locally you need both Ruby and Bundler installed.
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Install dependencies:
$ bundle install
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Update
url
in_config.yml
to match your machine:
title: Elixir School
description: Lessons about the Elixir programming language
baseurl: /
url: http://localhost:4000
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Run Jekyll:
$ bundle exec jekyll s
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Read it at http://localhost:4000
Translating
In addition to the steps above there are a few addition steps required for translation.
New Language
- Create a folder using the 2 character code (e.g. jp, en, es, etc) with lesson subfolders:
$ cd elixirschool
$ mkdir -p jp/lessons/{basics,advanced,specifics,libraries}
$ touch jp/lessons/{basics,advanced,specifics,libraries}/.gitignore
- Update
_config.yml
by including the 2 character code inlanguages
and adding translations tosections
,description
andtoc
:
languages: ['en', 'jp']
default_lang: en
exclude_from_localization: []
sections:
- tag: basics
label:
en: Basics
jp: 基本
description:
en: Lessons about the Elixir programming language
jp: プログラミング言語Elixirのレッスン
toc:
en: Table of Contents
jp: 目次
- If the new language is RTL (right-to-left) it should also be added to the
rtl_languages
list:
rtl_languages: ['ar']
- Add it to list in
index.md
:
Available in [Việt ngữ][vi], [汉语][cn], [Español][es], [Slovenčina][sk], [日本語][jp], [Polski][pl] [Português][pt], [Русском][ru] and [Bahasa Melayu][my] and other.
Translated Lesson
-
Translated lessons must include the page metadata.
layout
,category
andorder
should be copied from the original lesson.lang
should be a 2 character code previously selected on the folder creation step.title
should be a translation of the original lesson'stitle
.version
should consist of three digits:major.minor.patch
, so:- if this is a initial lesson translation, the version should be set to
1.0.0
; - if you apply the original lesson updates to the translation, the version should be copied from the corresponding state of the original lesson;
- else bump one of the version numbers depending on how important is your change.
- if this is a initial lesson translation, the version should be set to
For example
/jp/lessons/basics/basics.md
:
---
layout: page
title: 基本
category: basics
order: 1
lang: jp
version: 1.0.0
---