Ruby Jekyll - Octopress cannot Rake generate with URI

Question

Looks like I am having serious issues with Jekyll. Nothing worked so far and I still have

jekyll 2.5.3 | Error: bad URI(is not URI?): https://gist.githubusercontent.com/

I have had included this along the way into my source:

Gist Method: The sample code below can used to pull out code from Gist from Github

 {% gist gist_id [filename] %}

I wanted to illustrate these as examples in my blog but ran into rake generate issues giving the aforementioned errors. I have had done my research and after having closed the other errors (not closing blockquotes, etc), this is something I cannot figure out on my own.

Answer 1

You're using a documentation string with placeholders.

{% gist gist_id [filename] %}

This string is parsed by Octopress Gist plugins and as the resulting url ( https://gist.githubusercontent.com/raw/id/[filename]) has a wrong pattern, an error is thrown.

If you want to print this documentation in a post you can do.

{% highlight liquid %}
{% raw %}{% gist gist_id [filename] %}{% endraw %}
{% endhighlight %}

For more infos about Octopress' Gist tag, see : http://octopress.org/docs/plugins/gist-tag/