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Checking for broken links with TravisCI

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
Half a day
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
jekyll, ruby
Domain
ci-cd

Research direction

Start by checking the repository's .travis.yml and the status of issue #19, which is identified as a prerequisite. Compare the existing CI configuration with the proposed Jekyll build and htmlproof commands; done means TravisCI checks generated links and reports bad or broken links in pull requests.

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Description

help wanted

See #19 for fixing all the existing broken links.

Once that's done, we should add a link checker to TravisCI to keep appraised of any broken links (due to external site changes) or bad links in incoming pull request.

@JoaoRodrigues suggested following https://www.jacobtomlinson.co.uk/jekyll/2015/02/18/test-you-jekyll-blog-with-travis-ci/ which suggests this for the .travis.yml file:

language: ruby
rvm:
  - 2.1
script:
  - bundle exec jekyll build
  - bundle exec htmlproof ./_site --only-4xx --check-favicon --check-html
env:
  global:
    - NOKOGIRI_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES=true # speeds up installation of html-proofer
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CSS
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