Jekyll Installation: MacOS:

  • brew install chruby ruby-install
  • /opt/homebrew/bin/ruby-install ruby 3.3.5
  • run following (or autorun via .bash_profile)
    export PATH=/Users/madhav/.rubies/ruby-3.3.5/bin:$PATH
  • gem install bundler
  • gem install jekyll

You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.

To add new posts, simply add a file in the _posts directory that follows the convention YYYY-MM-DD-name-of-post.ext and includes the necessary front matter. Take a look at the source for this post to get an idea about how it works.

Jekyll also offers powerful support for code snippets:

def print_hi(name)
  puts "Hi, #{name}"
end
print_hi('Tom')
#=> prints 'Hi, Tom' to STDOUT.

Check out the Jekyll docs for more info on how to get the most out of Jekyll. File all bugs/feature requests at Jekyll’s GitHub repo. If you have questions, you can ask them on Jekyll Talk.

I was about to delete this post, but I thought “Why? Why not let someone see how blogs are made in jekyll? And also, why delete a post that’s already there?”