Setting up jekyll on Ubuntu 12.04

Upgrade stock ruby to ruby 2.0

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng-experimental sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y ruby2.0 ruby2.0-dev ruby2.0-doc

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Set up the defaults to ruby 2.0

sudo update-alternatives --config ruby sudo update-alternatives --config gem

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Install Jekyll itself

sudo gem install jekyll

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Set up a Jekyll blog

Find a theme, download it to your computer, cd into the folder and type jekyll serve --watch to see the site!