You get what you pay for, I guess? (And I pay about $1.66 USD per month. The obvious question here is why doesn’t NearlyFreeSpeech keep multiple Ruby versions installed? I don’t know. Ruby had been upgraded from 2.6 to 2.7, thus the old executable ruby26 had been replaced with the new one, ruby27. This command will open the browser, and your site will be sync real-time in 2.7.1p83 ( revision a0c7c23c9cec0d0ffcba012279cd652d28ad5bf3) Īh ha! - ruby27. It will watch any changes in the entire _site directory $ browser-sync start -proxy 'localhost:4000' -files '_site/*.*' Run this command in the same directory of your site. Install it by $ npm install -g browser-sync That tool will auto synch and reload the browser for you. When you edit your post, you want the browser to be refreshed and your changes are displayed right after you saved your files. The most common way is: // Go to the downloaded folder Each theme has its own installation instructions, so follow it. You can google it or check in .ĭownload any theme you like. You can create a new Jekyll site with default minimal theme by: $ jekyll new myblogīut there are many free theme for free, so we can forget the default theme and look for a better theme. Use ls to make sure jekyll is there.Īdd that path to your shell config: $ echo 'export PATH='/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/bin:$PATH'' > ~/.zshrc Jekyll should be inside /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/bin. Try to replace /gems/jekyll-3.8.5/lib/jekyll.rb with /bin. Find your Jekyll path using: $ gem which jekyll

If you see the command not found error, add Jekyll path to your shell config. Install Bundler and Jekyll: $ gem install bundler jekyllĬheck if Jekyll is installed correctly. Relaunch your terminal and check your updated Ruby setup.

$ echo 'export PATH='/usr/local/opt/ruby/bin:$PATH'' > ~/.zshrc Replace ~/.zshrc with ~/.bashrc if you are using bash. Install Ruby via Homebrew: $ brew install rubyĪdd Ruby path to your shell config. Install the command-line tools to be able to compile native extensions: $ xcode-select -install

Gem install jekyll bundler brew