How to

For instructions refer https://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now. This will help you link your github account to the blog. No need of Jekyll on your local machine, as github takes care of it all. However, if you want to develop blog locally there are few gotchas.

Gotchas

Ruby on OS X

After spending an hour with my pre-installed, root owned version of Ruby and Gems, I moved to rvm.

• Install gpg2 with Homebrew -

  brew install gnupg gnupg2
  

• Install rvm - https://rvm.io/

Ruby on Ubuntu

Same instructions should work fine.

gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3
\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby

If you see an error:

curl: (77) error setting certificate verify locations:
  CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
  CApath: none

do following:

sudo apt-get install ca-certificates
sudo mkdir -p /etc/pki/tls/certs
sudo ln -s /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt

Jekyll

You might need to install following gems

gem install jekyll
gem install jekyll-sitemap
gem install jekyll-feed

That’s it. Add source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm to your .bashrc file and hopefully you’d be able to use jekyll on your local machine seamlessly.