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bartlettroscoe committed Dec 7, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ I would have hoped. First, you have to install a newer version of Ruby on
your local machine and then use that to install something call "bundler" and
then use that to install Jekyll. This is really important because to test the
building of your website and view what it looks like locally, you have to be
able to run and updated Jekyll server locally over and over again on your
local machine. To install Ruby and Jekyll, I followed the instructions on
various GitHub and other sites
able to run an updated Jekyll server locally over and over again on your local
machine. To install Ruby and Jekyll, I followed the instructions on various
GitHub and other sites
(e.g. [here](https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-your-github-pages-site-locally-with-jekyll/)). I
was able to install these on a Windows 7 Laptop using Cygwin (and therefore
followed the Linux instructions). I was able to build Ruby 2.5.1 from source
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and then build and view the site locally by running the blocking command:

```
$ bundle exec jekyll serve`
$ bundle exec jekyll serve
```

in a Cygwin terminal and then going to `https://localhost:4000` in my Chrome
browser on my Windows 7 machine. (While that command runs in blocking mode,
you can edit your files locally and by default Jekyll will automatically
rebuilt your site and you can just refresh your browser to see the updated
pages. Very node!). By forking this Minima Theme GitHub repo, it is my hope
that it should be easy to update my template and files by merging in updated
versions from the main GitHub repo (of course carefully resolving merge
conflicts).
in a Cygwin terminal and then going to `localhost:4000` in my Chrome browser
on my Windows 7 machine. (While that command runs in blocking mode, you can
edit your files locally and by default Jekyll will automatically rebuilt your
site and you can just refresh your browser to see the updated pages. Very
nice!). By forking this Minima Theme GitHub repo, it is my hope that it
should be easy to update my template and files by merging in updated versions
from the main GitHub repo (of course carefully resolving merge conflicts).

After I verified that I could generate and view the existing Minima page
locally and after pushing to github, I then set out to customize it for
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I am very happy with how this site looks so far. This is really something
special when you think about it. With GitHub Pages and Jekyll, you get a free
semi-professional looking website that you can edit a simple Markdown `*.md`
files with full version control history (in git) and it gets served on the web
for free! That is pretty slick!
semi-professional looking website that you can edit simple Markdown `*.md`
files with full git version-control history and it gets served on the web for
free! That is pretty slick!

Hopefully this short blog will help other people who might be interested in
setting up their own website using GitHub Pages with minimal effort.

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