Setting up Jekyll

Install Jekyll and Bundler gems through RubyGems

gem install jekyll bundler

Troubleshooting

• I had to upgrade my Ruby version and this Stackoverflow answer was very helpful.

Bootstrap a blog

Create a new Jekyll site at ./myblog

jekyll new myblog

Change into your new directory

cd myblog

Build the site on the preview server

bundle exec jekyll serve

• Now browse to http://localhost:4000

Basic usage

• The basic usage webpage explains different options to

jekyll build [options]

and

jekyll serve [options]