Getting Started

  1. You will need Ruby and Bundler to use Jekyll. Following Using Jekyll with Bundler to fullfill the enviromental requirement.

  2. Installed dependencies in the Gemfile:

bundle install 
  1. Serve the website (localhost:4000 by default):
bundle exec jekyll serve  # alternatively, npm start

Create New Post

After Rake is introduced, we can use the command below to simplify the post creation:

rake post title="Hello 2015" subtitle="Hello World, Hello Blog"

Note: tags section can also be written as tags: [Life, Meta].

This command will automatically generate a sample post similar to the above under the _posts/ folder.

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