Jekyll - Micro Project

Prerequisites

• Ensure Ruby and Jekyll are installed on your machine

Creating Assets

• Execute the command below to create a new directory to contain this project.
  • mkdir my-jekyll-project-name
• Change directories to the newly created directory
  • cd my-jekyll-project-name
• Create a new markdown file named index.
  • touch index.md
• Add text to the newly created index.md file, and save it.
• Execute the command below to create a configuration file for the project
  • touch _config.yml
• Add the code below to the _config.yml and save it.

title: Your awesome title
description: >- # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
  Write an awesome description for your new site here.
theme: minima

• Execute the command below to create a Gemfile for the project
  • touch Gemfile
• Add the code below to the Gemfile and save it.

source "http://rubygems.org"
gem "faraday", "~> 0.17.3"
gem "jekyll", "~> 3.8.5"
gem "github-pages", "202", group: :jekyll_plugins 
group :jekyll_plugins do
  gem "jekyll-feed", "~> 0.11"
end
platforms :mingw, :x64_mingw, :mswin, :jruby do
  gem "tzinfo", "~> 1.2"
  gem "tzinfo-data"
end
gem "wdm", "~> 0.1.1", :platforms => [:mingw, :x64_mingw, :mswin]

Serving Project

• From the root directory of the Jekyll project execute the command below
  • bundle install
  • bundle update --bundler
  • bundle update faraday
  • bundle exec jekyll serve --watch
• The application should serve on localhost:4000 by default.
• The github repository for this project can be found here