https://zbrad.github.io/tags/jekyll/Recent content in Jekyll on ZBrad's BlogHugoen-usThu, 05 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0800https://zbrad.github.io/tools/creating-a-github-pages-blog/Thu, 05 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0800https://zbrad.github.io/tools/creating-a-github-pages-blog/<p>Steps for successfully setting up a Jekyll blog on Windows hosted by GitHub Pages.</p> <h3 id="context">Context</h3> <p>In my new role one of the goals is to communicate more about what we do and how we do it. I&rsquo;ve written web articles and a couple of books in the past but these days the primary communication and sharing vehicle seems to be the technical blog.</p> <h3 id="setup">Setup</h3> <ol> <li>Download Ruby and the Ruby DevKit</li> </ol> <p>I&rsquo;m running Windows 8.1 64-bit, so I needed to download a 64-bit Ruby distribution. I downloaded the prebuilt <a href="http://dl.bintray.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/rubyinstaller-2.2.1-x64.exe?direct">Ruby 2.2.1 for x64</a> from <a href="http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/">RubyInstaller for Windows</a></p>