Introduction

I build this blog with Jekyll. It strong and useful if:

  • Simple: Get up and running in few seconds.
  • Static: No more databases required.
  • Awesome: Jekyll support Markdown syntax, so you can write a post as a text file, not html file.
  • GitHub Page compatible: github page it free and useful, but it is not support dynamic websites with database. In this case, Jekyll is a good choice.

Building Jekyll for Window

It is a note for me. I am using Window 10, so there are some steps to take.

Installation

Full guide here

  1. Install a package manager for Windows called Chocolatey
    • To install chocolatey, open an administrative command prompt (cmd) and run command: @powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin
  2. Install Ruby via Chocolatey: choco install ruby -y
  3. Reopen a command prompt and install Jekyll: gem install jekyll

Location in my PC

By default, these pakages will be installed:

  • Chocolatey: C:\ProgramData\chocolatey
  • Ruby: C:\tools\ruby23
  • Jekyll: C:\tools\ruby23\lib\ruby\gems\2.3.0\gems

References