On netlify (ubuntu 14.04 build image), the jekyll-reading-time string filter outputs an entire post instead of "5 minutes." No issue on my local deploy

[San]

The issue:
On my netlify deploy, the jekyll-reading time plugin filter doesn’t act as expected. When I use the string filter on netlify, an entire post is outputted. On my local build the plugin acts as expected (see below).

Example of issue
_home.html liquid
<p><i>Read time: {{ post.content | reading_time | pluralize: "minute" }}</i></p>
Produces this on Netlify:
<p><i>Read time: <p>Data for the construction date of...[truncated]</i></p>
Instead of this, from my local deploy:
<p><i>Read time: 5 minutes</i></p>

Any ideas on how to solve this? I don’t notice anything strange in the build log (linked below).

Just some info, the plugin is located in the _plugins folder as a .rb, and is not referenced in the _config.yml or Gemfile.

Also, I’m using the ubuntu 14.04 build image on netlify. This is because I was getting failed builds due to something related to jekyll-picture-tag. The recommended solution from others was to switch to 14.04, which worked for me. At the bottom of the post is the error message I was receiving, in case it’s useful.

Plugin info
Jekyll-reading-time

Site info
Site name: northernlightsman.netlify.app
Domains: kat.northernlightsman.com, northernlightsman.com

Build settings:
Repository: Deploy from private github repository
Base directory: not set
Build command: jekyll build
Publish directory: _site/

Build image: Ubuntu Trusty 14.04

Build log

Build log - Pastebin.com

Error message from older builds related to picture-tag
8:36:05 PM: Liquid Exception: convert /tmp/mini_magick20201221-2044-1ilysjz.jpg[0] /tmp/mini_magick20201221-2044-im5xo.webp failed with error: convert: delegate failed "cwebp" -quiet -q %Q "%i" -o "%o"' @ error/delegate.c/InvokeDelegate/1310. in /opt/build/repo/_posts/2020-12-01-acrobatic-quadcopter-build-log.md

[perry]

hi there,

did you see this already? there are important differences between our build images, and i am wondering whether the behaviour you are seeing is due to this.

[Support Guide] [Deprecated] What are the differences between the Trusty and Xenial build images?

Note: As of November 2021, this guide is no longer accurate as a new build image was released in 2021. The Trusty build image will no longer work on our system. Please see the guide on migrating to the new Focal build image in the comment after this post. If you have questions about migrating your project, please start a new thread, as this thread is locked. thanks! --Support at Netlify Skip to the end! Just tell us what we need to know! Let me “skip ahead” to the answer to the second questio…

[San]

Hi Perry,

Thanks for the reply. No, I hadn’t seen that support guide. Much appreciated. The reason I’m using 14.04 is because the Xenial image does not have webp support for imagemagick.

However, I’ve resolved the issue. It seems the plugins located in /_plugins were not being pushed to my repository. There was a .git folder with the contents of a plugin repository in /_plugins. After removing the .git folder, GitHub Desktop recognized the content of /_plugins. The deploy now works as expected.

As an aside, I’m planning to re-work my layout to not use jekyll-picture-tag so that I have more control over responsive images on my site. I’ll move to Xenial at that time.

[perry]

great, glad you found a workaround!