Confused how to use enable_jekyll

[redonkulus]

I'm using GitHub Pages for https://github.com/acss-io/atomizer. Right now, GH Pages is setup on the master branch and ./docs directory. However, I want to change this to gh-pages branch and ./ directory.

I'm trying to use this action with the following settings:

            - name: Deploy
              if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
              uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3
              with:
                  enable_jekyll: true
                  github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
                  publish_dir: ./docs/_site

When the job runs, the jekyll files are not built and nothing is copied to the gh-pages page. I tried to fix from the readme for first commit by changing the settings and running the build again but it still did not publish anything.

It was my understanding that setting enable_jekyll: true should trigger the Jekyll build but it looks like that is not the case as my ./docs/_site is not being built:

Source: https://github.com/acss-io/atomizer/runs/7418634700?check_suite_focus=true

Are my assumptions incorrect or am I doing something wrong?

[redonkulus]

Turns out I had publish_dir incorrectly set to the output of the build, not the source files. Once I fixed that, the site was able to deploy properly.