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gem or RubyGems is a package manager for Ruby, just like how we have npm, pip and cargo for Node, Python and Rust. Jekyll must be downloaded as a gem package, so we use gem command to do that. But for building the website locally we need lot of other tools, github-pages gem provides these tools for us, jekyll is also packaged along with github-pages. Therefore you need to install only github-pages gem.
Once jekyll and other tools are installed, you can set-up your blog. The easiest way is to clone my repository and checkout the gh-pages branch. Most of the source code you see in my repository is borrowed from tocttou/hacker-blog. Once cloned, copy the contents of my repository to your repository (under gh-pages branch), Run these commands:
Once jekyll and other tools are installed, you can set-up your blog. The easiest way is to clone my repository and checkout the gh-pages branch. Most of the source code you see in my repository is borrowed from tocttou/hacker-blog. Once cloned, copy the contents of my repository to your repository (under gh-pages branch), Run these commands:
gem or RubyGems is a package manager for Ruby, just like how we have npm, pip and cargo for Node, Python and Rust. Jekyll must be downloaded as a gem package, so we use gem command to do that. But for building the website locally we need lot of other tools, github-pages gem provides these tools for us, jekyll is also packaged along with github-pages. Therefore you need to install only github-pages gem.
Going further in this post, I will be explaining how each of these requirements was satisfied. After exploration and quick googling I found this tool called jekyll, to my surprise, it more of less supported all my requirements (with some additions).