Jekyll On Ubuntu

.bashrc

Update ~/.bashrc

export GEM_HOME=$HOME/gems
export PATH=$HOME/gems/bin:$PATH

Open a new session or update current session

source ~/.bashrc

ruby & bundler

$ sudo apt install ruby bundler

jekyll

$ gem install jekyll

$ mkdir ~/gitcode
$ cd ~/gitcode
$ jekyll new test
$ cd test
$ bundle exec jekyll serve --verbose

The verbose flag is optional but very useful for troubleshooting

Browse to http://localhost:4000. Use ctrl-c to close.

Theme

Clone a Jekyll theme for use locally.

$ cd ~/gitcode
$ git clone [email protected]:mmistakes/minimal-mistakes.git
$ cd minimal-mistake
$ bundle install
$ bundle exec jekyll server

Remove all gems

Remove all gems, their dependencies, and without user interaction.

gem uninstall -Iax