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Quickstart

Jekyll is a simple, extendable, static site generator. You give it text written in your favorite markup language and it churns through layouts to create a static website. Throughout that process you can tweak how you want the site URLs to look, what data gets displayed in the layout, and more.

Instructions

1. Install a full Ruby development environment
2. Install Jekyll and bundler gems

   gem install jekyll bundler
   

3. Create a new Jekyll site at ./myblog

   jekyll new myblog
   

4. Change into your new directory

   cd myblog
   

5. Build the site and make it available on a local server

   bundle exec jekyll serve
   

6. Now browse to http://localhost:4000

If you encounter any unexpected errors during the above, please refer to the troubleshooting page or the already-mentioned requirements page, as you might be missing development headers or other prerequisites.