Create a blog using jekyll (1): Installing jekyll

In this article, we will learn how to create a blog using jekyll. Jekyll is a software that can create simple blogs or static sites, and is based on a programming language called “ruby”. Jekyll was created in 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, who is also the co-founder of GitHub. Jekyll is the engine for GitHub Pages and one of the most popular static site generators.

Advantages of jekyll

One of the biggest advantages of jekyll is that it is easy to integrate with GitHub Pages. Github Pages is a web hosting service provided by GitHub based on jekyll. Users can get domains for free through Github Pages. And users can use GitHub Pages more easily through jekyll.

• Through jekyll, users can use Markdown instead of HTML.

• Users can decorate their site by using the theme provided by jekyll without using CSS.

Then, is there any problem?

Unfortunately, this is the biggest problem. It’s just that it’s difficult. Not only is it not a GUI format like Naver Blog or Tistory, but there are a lot of things you need to know, such as jekyll and GitHub. Therefore, I will focus on creating a blog through jekyll and GitHub through several articles. If you follow the blog posts well, there will be no big difficulties in creating and operating a blog.

Let’s install jekyll first.

! The installation of jekyll is done from the terminal. After opening the terminal, enter the following command: The order is in the order of installing Ruby - installing jekyll.

1. xcode-select –install // Install command line tools.

2. To install the latest Ruby gem, it is recommended to install it through Homebrew as follows.

   $ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"#*Install Homebrew*
   $ brew install ruby ​​#*Install latest Ruby*
   $ ruby ​​-v # *Check the version of Ruby*
   

! If you have installed the Ruby gem, you can now install jekyll.

1. sudo install bundler jekyll // Install jekyll. At this time, SuperUser permission is required.

2. If the installation of jekyll is complete, you need to install the jekyll site. At this time, you need to create a main folder for managing your blog. (Let’s think about the folder name, here * “myblog” *)

   $ jekyll new myblog #*Create a myblog folder and install jekyll there*
   $ cd myblog # *Go to the myblog folder*
   $ bundle exec jekyll serve # *Open a site on the local server and make it available for use.*
   

3. If you connect to http://localhost:4000/, you can see that the blog has been created as follows.