GitHub Pages
A short walkthrough of how to setup GitHub pages for local editing and some references of similar GitHub based websites and portals.
Before we install Jekyll, we need to make sure we have all the required dependencies.
sudo apt-get install ruby-full build-essential zlib1g-dev
It is best to avoid installing Ruby Gems as the root user. Therefore, we need to set up a gem installation directory for your user account. The following commands will add environment variables to your
~/.bashrc file to configure the gem installation path. Run them now:echo '# Install Ruby Gems to ~/gems' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export GEM_HOME="$HOME/gems"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/gems/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
Finally, install Jekyll:
gem install jekyll bundler
That’s it! You’re ready to start using Jekyll.
cd <cloned-github-directory>
$ bundle exec jekyll serve
> Configuration file: /Users/octocat/my-site/_config.yml
> Source: /Users/octocat/my-site
> Destination: /Users/octocat/my-site/_site
> Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
> Generating...
> done in 0.309 seconds.
> Auto-regeneration: enabled for '/Users/octocat/my-site'
> Configuration file: /Users/octocat/my-site/_config.yml
> Server address: <http://127.0.0.1:4000/>
> Server running... press ctrl-c to stop.
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