Install Jekyll on Windows

In this article I will talk about how to install Jekyll and all necessary components on Windows.

Let’s start with installing Ruby. To do this, you can use Ruby Installer http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ At the time of this writing, If you don’t know what version to install and you’re getting started with Ruby, we recommend you use Ruby 2.1.X installers http://dl.bintray.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/rubyinstaller-2.1.7.exe

Besides also download Ruby Development Kit. For use with Ruby 2.0 and above (32bits version only) http://dl.bintray.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/DevKit-mingw64-32-4.7.2-20130224-1151-sfx.exe and extract in to any folder. I recommend to do the extract it to C:\RubyDevKit\

Once you have installed and extracted Ruby (with add Ruby executables to your PATH) and Ruby Development Kit. Open a command prompt in the directory where you extract the Ruby Development Kit and do the following in command prompt

> ruby dk.rb init
> ruby dk.rb install

Now install Python 2.7.11 https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.11/python-2.7.11.msi and do not forget to add Python to your PATH

Download get-pip.py https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py and install it with command

> python get-pip.py

Now open your Command Prompt and use following commands

> python -m pip install Pygments
> gem install wdm
> gem install jekyll

Now all the necessary components to get started with Jekyll installed.

For a quick start with Jekyll use commands:

> jekyll new myblog
> cd myblog
> jekyll serve

Now browse to localhost:4000

If as a host for your Jekyll blog you will use GitHub Pages also install Git https://git-scm.com/

Themes for Jekyll you can find here https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/wiki/Themes