From the course: Learning Static Site Building with Jekyll
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Install Jekyll
From the course: Learning Static Site Building with Jekyll
Install Jekyll
- [Instructor] The first step is installing Jekyll on your machine. Search for install Jekyll, and follow the official instructions on the Jekyll website, at jekyllrb.com. There are detailed instructions here for Mac, Linux and Windows. Because Jekyll is built on top of Ruby, you'll need to make sure that Ruby is installed first. You can do this by opening your terminal, or your shell, for example I'm using PowerShell on Windows, and typing ruby -v. And also gem -v. If you get an error message when you run either of these commands, you'll need to fix your installation of Ruby first, before continuing with Jekyll. If the instructions on the Jekyll website don't resolve your problem, search for install Ruby, and your operating system, like install Ruby Windows, to get some more help. Once you've installed Jekyll, double-check that it's working as well, by doing jekyll -v. If you see a version number here too, you've installed Jekyll correctly, and you're ready to go. If you get an…
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