I’ve been putting of creating a plug-in that would take my images from flickr and embed them on pages here… was able to make a local working plug in fairly quicky. However, everytime I tried to push the site to heroku everything would fail with an error, Liquid Exception: No API key or secret defined! Well the solution was simple and I kept glossing over it heroku labs:enable user-env-compile Yes, thats right.

I the course of building and deploying this site one particular site has been truly helpful, Stack Overflow. Today I was finally able to give back and answer a fairly simple question that had me perplex when I first encountered it, Jekyll on Heroku listing additional (internal?) posts I haven’t created. The probelm: Jekyll on heroku publishes mysterious pages, and they all relate to your project someway, somehow. The solution: Let’s call the directory where Jekyll is installed & running from the root /.

Once again I’m taking inspiration from Jonas Forsberg and Deploy to Heroku from Github. However, I just couln’t get the thing to work. So I backtracked to the orginal project github-heroku-pusher and everything now seems to be in working order. I think I will circle back around to his method eventually, but for now, while I build out the site I’m going to follow the don’t fix what isn’t broken mantra.

After playing with jekyll on Git Hub’s pages, I realized I needed something with a bit more zest. I needed plug-in support. I found Jonas Forsberg post entitled Jekyll + Heroku + Unicorn = Blazing fast blogging and basically followed the step outlined below. sudo gem install heroku sudo gem install bundler heroku auth:login git clone git@github.com:himynameisjonas/jekyll-heroku-unicorn.git cd jekyll-heroku-unicorn bundle install heroku create git push heroku master That lead to a complete fail.