


Now open the config file (from c:/kit/ruby), and add your ruby installation path like this.Īs you can see, I have set the path as C:\Ruby22-圆4, because I have installed (By default) ruby on C drive, but if you ruby installed somewhere else, then you need to add that location. Now you will see initialize complete, but you have to modify some config files, otherwise you will see some errors while entering our next command, so let’s modify our config file first. Now, we are in our ruby dev kit folder, now run this command Now, open CMD (Command Prompt) as administrator, and navigate your ruby dev kit folder with cd command, like cd c:/ then cd kit then cd ruby Fig 2. Now, extract ruby dev kit anywhere you like, I have extracted it on my own folder like C:/Kit/Ruby/

You also need to install Ruby Dev kit, so go to the same page, scroll down a little bit and download ruby dev kit as per what operating system you’re using (like 32 bit or 64 bit and which version of ruby you have installed). And please don’t forget to add a proper environment variable while installation. It will be good if you remember the setup path while installation. Step 1: Setup Ruby and Ruby Dev Kit.įirst off, you need to install ruby language in your windows operating system, so click here and download ruby setup file (I recommend to download only stable version of ruby, so don’t download the latest version instead download previous version) and install it on your machine. Note: Many of the old tutorial say, you have to install Python for syntax highlight, but after jekyll 3.0 many of things are changed, so now you don’t need to install python anymore if you’re using Github pages for hosting. Jekyll (built in ruby) is very popular static website generator among others, becauseġ) It is first static site generator that comes into the web world.Ģ) It is most recommended by Github pages.ģ) Easy to use without any skill of the Ruby language, even I don’t know how to write hello program in ruby. After Jekyll 3.0 it’s very easy to install Jekyll on windows 7, windows 8 and windows 10, because most of dependencies are removed for windows users. Jekyll is a static website generator, which you can use it for blog development and website development.
