Blog 0: Setting up Jekyll on Ubuntu

Setting up Jekyll on Ubuntu

Jekyll is a static site generator where we could write text in our favorite markup language and it uses layouts to create a static website.

There are few pre-requisite installation required before the installing Jekyll on Ubuntu.

Step 1: Install Jekyll on Ununtu

• ‘sudo apt-get update’
• ‘sudo apt-get upgrade -y’

Since Jekyll requires Ruby installation. We need to make sure Ruby development environemtn which includes libraries.

• ‘sudo apt-get install ruby-full build-essential zlib1g-dev’

Step 2: Configuring gem installation path

According to jekyll site for installing RUBY, it recomemends to avoid installation of Ruby Gems as the root user. Therefore, by entering below commands we can set up a gem installation directory to USER account.

• ‘echo ‘# Install Ruby Gems to ~/gems’ » ~/.bashrc’
• ‘echo ‘export GEM_HOME= “$HOME/gems”’ » ~/.bashrc’
• ‘echo ‘export PATH= “$HOME/gems/bin: $PATH”’ » ~/.bashrc’
• ‘source ~./bashrc’

Step 3:

• ‘gem install Jekyll bundler’

Running GitHub Page

In the github repository you can select Settings and see the link assinged by the ‘Github pages’. * Your site is published at

You should select the right branch and folder where new Jekyll site has been created.

Problems with loading page from the link assined by the Github pages

We need to edit the ‘_config.yml’ file from the new site created by the Jekyll. We need to uncomment line #15 if you have created your new jekyll site on other branch other than Master branch.