Blogging with Jekyll and GitHub Pages

Prerequisites

• Have a GitHub account
• Get Git installed
• Get Jekyll installed
• Install Bundler using gem install bundler

When you are ready

1. Create a new repository on GitHub
2. Use “[username].github.io” as your repo name (Remember to replace username with your OWN GitHub username)
3. After creating the repository, you will be directed to a new page. For now, just leave it alone.
4. From your terminal, create a new Jekyll site at ./myblog, then direct to the directory you just created (you can change “myblog” to whatever directory name you want)

   $ jekyll new myblog
   $ cd myblog
   

5. Run the following commands (Don’t forget to replace “zzhiyuan98” with your username)

   $ git init
   $ git add .
   $ git commit -m "Initial GitHub pages site with Jekyll"
   $ git remote add origin https://github.com/zzhiyuan98/zzhiyuan98.github.io.git
   $ git push --set-upstream origin master
   

6. Refresh the page you got in step 3, and you should see your new commit
7. Go to Settings -> Pages (Sidebar), and you should see this green box (If it’s blue, just wait for a few seconds and refresh the page) Click the url and boom! You have your brand-new blogging site all set!

Get your site running on a local server

bundle add webrick
bundle exec jekyll server