I noticed that after migrating dev work to my new Vagrant vm, jekyll doesn’t seem to want to regenerate posts whenever I make a change and try to preview it. The simple change I found from a stackoverflow post is instead of calling just jeykll build —watch, use jekyll build —watch —force_polling.
I replace the this line in the rakefile:
jekyllPid = Process.spawn({"OCTOPRESS_ENV"=>"preview"}, "jekyll build --watch")with:
jekyllPid = Process.spawn({"OCTOPRESS_ENV"=>"preview"}, "jekyll build --watch --force_polling")Both generate rake watch and rake preview use this line, so make sure to replace both. This seems to have solved my issue with rake preview/watch. The question also has an answer suggesting that vagrant uses a special driver for the file syncing between guest and host machines, making the regeneration not work properly, so that’s something to keep in mind.