benjaminv/benjaminv.github.io

How to use jekyll for blog?

• installation of this project
  • jekyll becomes a little legacy this days may fail on your version of Ruby env
  • to get a proper running project,
    • remove Gemfile.lock
    • remove some or all libraries' version requirements in Gemfile
    • run bundle install or bundle update depending you are on clean install or upgrade due to errors
    • ask ChatGPT / Claude about the errors you hit
• dev commands
  • local dev server: run bundle exec jekyll serve
  • (re)build the site: run bundle exec jekyll build
  • other commands: run bundle exec jekyll
• finally, sync to github
  • just push to repo like you usually do for projects