Page rendering errors cause Jekyll to fail silently about jekyll HOT 13 CLOSED

running jekyll --no-auto causes the full stack-trace to bubble up, which is very helpful in debugging.

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But it doesn't always work. I'm getting the following error from GitHub's build:

The page build failed with the following error:
private method `chop!' called for nil:NilClass

But running jekyll --no-auto locally (after cleaning out the _site/ directory) gives this:

Configuration from ./_config.yml
Building site: . -> ./_site
Successfully generated site: . -> ./_site

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Yeah, I've run into this as well. Definitely needs to be fixed.

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Looking at the Maruku source, chop! is only used in three places. One is for getting rid of trailing whitespace, one is for titles in links (a la [text](url "title")) and one is for titles in images. I think it's important that those titles are bounded by double quotes rather than single quotes.

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Well, I fixed all the single quotes around titles, but that doesn't seem to be it. It must be a whitespace issue, b/c I have no images (except one done explicitly in HTML).

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The underlying error seems to have been a problem in Maruku, since the page built fine once I changed the processor to RDiscount. It would still be nice to have those errors bubble up, though.

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I've submitted a pull request for this issue:

#249

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+1

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Yeah, I'm getting the same issue right now (and I've tried jekyll --no-auto too). It's especially frustrating because I've narrowed down which post is causing the problem, but it's such a long post that I don't know where it could be. It would be so much more helpful if the stacktraces would actually tell you the file and line number that it's having trouble parsing.

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Ah, I think I found the problem -- I think the pycon lexer was having trouble with the regex in my snippet. I'll have to investigate further... puts on debugging hat

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I ran into the same problem. I usually am able to find the issue... Something in the YAML... However, this time it looks to be something else.

/Users/bhardin/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:154:in `parse': (<unknown>): couldn't parse YAML at line 7 column 42 (Psych::SyntaxError)
    from /Users/bhardin/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:154:in `parse_stream'
    from /Users/bhardin/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:125:in `parse'
    from /Users/bhardin/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:112:in `load'
    from /Users/bhardin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/jekyll-0.11.2/lib/jekyll/convertible.rb:33:in `read_yaml'
    from /Users/bhardin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/jekyll-0.11.2/lib/jekyll/post.rb:39:in `initialize'
    from /Users/bhardin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/jekyll-0.11.2/lib/jekyll/site.rb:163:in `new'
    from /Users/bhardin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/jekyll-0.11.2/lib/jekyll/site.rb:163:in `block in read_posts'
    from /Users/bhardin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/jekyll-0.11.2/lib/jekyll/site.rb:161:in `each'
    from /Users/bhardin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/jekyll-0.11.2/lib/jekyll/site.rb:161:in `read_posts'
    from /Users/bhardin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/jekyll-0.11.2/lib/jekyll/site.rb:128:in `read_directories'
    from /Users/bhardin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/jekyll-0.11.2/lib/jekyll/site.rb:98:in `read'
    from /Users/bhardin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/jekyll-0.11.2/lib/jekyll/site.rb:38:in `process'
    from /Users/bhardin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/jekyll-0.11.2/bin/jekyll:250:in `<top (required)>'
    from /Users/bhardin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/bin/jekyll:19:in `load'
    from /Users/bhardin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/bin/jekyll:19:in `<main>'

Any idea?

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Figured my problem out... I had a colon (:) in the yaml

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Merged in #249.

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