Note: I have stopped maintaince on this project. I currenlty use Docker to develop jekyll projects locally. You can find more about running jekyll with Docker at http://www.jamessturtevant.com/posts/Running-Jekyll-in-Windows-using-Docker/

jekyll-vagrant

Environment for developing jekyll projects locally. Blog post at http://www.jamessturtevant.com/posts/running-jekyll-in-windows/

Setup

1. Make sure Vagrant and your favorite virtual machine are installed.
2. Clone this repository
3. Open command prompt to location of the Vagrantfile and run vagrant up
4. Jekyll and all it's dependencies are installed!

Existing Jekyll Projects

1. Copy the projects folder to the folder that contains the vagrantfile.
2. Open a command prompt to location of the Vagrantfile and run vagrant ssh
3. Once on the VM prompt cd /vagrant/<YourProjectFolder>
4. Start the jekyll server jekyll serve --force_polling (force polling is required with vagrant because of share)

New Jekyll Projects

1. Open a command prompt to location of the Vagrantfile and run vagrant ssh
2. Once on the VM prompt cd /vagrant
3. Create new site with jekyll new <sitename>
4. Start the jekyll server jekyll serve --force_polling (force polling is required with vagrant because of share)