I host a blog on github pages that is generated using jekyll. Every time I get a new Mac, I need to set up the backend for developing the blog. This setup process always takes way longer than I'd like, so it's documented here for convenience.
Jekyll is a ruby
package, and thus requires us to have ruby
installed on our machine. Note that Macs come with a system installation of ruby
, e.g. if you run
which ruby
# /usr/bin/ruby
ruby -v