This is repository contains the developer documentation for BigBlueButton. This is located at http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/.

This repository uses Jekyll to build the documentation site. When making changes to the docs, you should first setup Jekyll so you can build the documentation site locally to preview any changes before you push to git..

The easy way to preview (using Docker)

The easy to generate the BigBlueButton documentation locally and see the effect of your changes before committing is to create a Docker image that runs Jekyll. If you have installed Docker, then you can create a docker image called github-pages using the following command

docker build -t github-pages .

After the images builds, then if, for example, you've checked out this repository to ~/bigbluebutton.github.io, you can render it locally using the command

docker run --rm -v ~/bigbluebutton.github.io:/site -p 4000:4000 github-pages serve --watch --host 0.0.0.0

When you run this command you'll see

$ docker run --rm -v ~/bigbluebutton.github.io:/site -p 4000:4000 github-pages serve --watch --host 0.0.0.0
Configuration file: /site/_config.yml
Configuration file: /site/_config.yml
            Source: /site
       Destination: /site/_site
 Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
      Generating... 
                    done in 8.521 seconds.
 Auto-regeneration: enabled for '/site'
Configuration file: /site/_config.yml
    Server address: http://0.0.0.0:4000/
  Server running... press ctrl-c to stop.

And you can now view the site using the URL http://localhost:4000/. If the Docker approach does not work, you can setup Jekyll using the steps below.

Ruby

To install Ruby, we suggest the use of rbenv.

But you have other options:

• Using RVM: see this page.
• Using apt packages.
• From source.

From now on, we will assume you will use rbenv, so if you decide for another method you might have to adapt some of commands in the rest of this guide.

The commands below will show you how to install rbenv. In short, this is what you will be doing:

• Install rbenv
• Install the plugin ruby-build plugin, that will actually be used to install ruby
• Install the target ruby
• Install bundler

Important: if you have RVM installed, you should remove it first!

# Install rbenv
$ git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
$ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ source ~/.bash_profile

# install ruby build
$ git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build

# clone this repo
$ git clone https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton.github.io.git

# install the targeted version of ruby
$ cd bigbluebutton.github.io
$ rbenv install
$ rbenv rehash
$ rbenv version
> 2.2.1 (set by (...)/bigbluebutton.github.io/.ruby-version)

# install bundler
$ gem install bundler
$ rbenv rehash

At this point you have the correct version of Ruby installed, now you have to install the site dependencies. Enter the directory bigbluebutton.github.io and type

bundle install

This will install all the Jekyll components. Next, type

bundle exec jekyll serve --host=0.0.0.0

Jekyll will run a server on port 4000 that lets you see a live update of the site after you make a save of any file.

 Freds-Air:bigbluebutton.github.io ffdixon$ jekyll serve
Configuration file: /Users/ffdixon/bigbluebutton.github.io/_config.yml
            Source: /Users/ffdixon/bigbluebutton.github.io
       Destination: /Users/ffdixon/bigbluebutton.github.io/_site
      Generating... 
                    done.
 Auto-regeneration: enabled for '/Users/ffdixon/bigbluebutton.github.io'
Configuration file: /Users/ffdixon/bigbluebutton.github.io/_config.yml
    Server address: http://0.0.0.0:4000/
  Server running... press ctrl-c to stop.

You can now edit files locally, review changes locally, and push commits to GitHub.