Jekyll Template

This is a template project for jekyll that you can clone and customise to suit your needs. Its quite opinionated in what it provides, the idea is to get you up and running with feed support, analytics and comments and feedback. This is meant for a standalone blog, not for github pages

Please don't fork otherwise I'll see lots of noise on the fork queue that are your customisation for your blog. I suggest you create a repo on github (public or private, its up to you) and do the following assuming the new repo is available at https://github.com/username/reponame:

git clone https://github.com/krisb/jekyll-template.git mysite
cd mysite
rm -rf .git
git init
git commit -m 'initial template based on https://github.com/krisb/jekyll-template'
git remote add origin git@github.com:username/reponame.git
git push origin master

The following sections detail how to set up and use the template. The commands are known to work on my macbook, YRMV.

Ruby 1.9.2 via RVM

I recommend that you install rvm and set everything up using that. For single user install run the following:

bash < <( curl http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/releases/rvm-install-head )

Follow the instructions, adding the necessary lines in .bashrc, e.g.

# RVM
if [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] ; then
  source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
fi

Now source .bashrc (you don't need to do this normally as it runs on login, it is just to update the current term window)

source ~/.bashrc

You can then install and use ruby 1.9.2:

rvm install 1.9.2
rvm use 1.9.2

Gems

Run the following to install the necessary gems:

gem install jekyll rdiscount compass

Markup

I prefer markdown, but you can use a number of supported markup formats.

Pygments (code highlighting)

Assuming you have python installed with easy_install available:

sudo easy_install Pygments

Stylesheets

I recommend that you use compass. I've included _sass/mixins/_syntax.scss for the pygments syntax highlighting.

Rake deploy task

The following tasks are available (use rake -T to list them):

rake build        # Build site with Jekyll
rake check_links  # Check links for site already running on localhost:4000
rake clean        # Clean up generated site
rake deploy       # Build and deploy
rake server       # Start server with --auto

The deploy task is simplistic and uses rsync to copy the generated site to your server. You will need to replace the username, servername and path as appropriate.

Configuration

There are a number of values in _config.yml to customise your site. Change as appropriate.

The following enhancements are baked in and enabled if you provide the configuration required.

Google Analytics - web analytics using the async script
Disqus - comments and feedback
Feedburner - rss feeds
Github Ribbon - fork me on github ribbon

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