So I hit a little wall where the howtos weren't specific about what needed to be sudo'd and what didn't. The goal is to have a site in Dropbox that compiles with Jekyll for a book-length amount of text in blobby chunks. I'm on MacOS 10.8 on two computers, which is why Dropbox is the base for this project.
- installed/updated xcode
- installed railsinstaller http://railsinstaller.org/
- sudo rvm install ruby-1.9.3-p327
- used JewelryBox to enable that [http://cl.ly/image/0Q2W0O1K0w12]
- sudo gem install jekyll
- brew install libksba (according to JewelryBox instructions)
THEN the big ah-hah moment came in realizing that Jekyll doesn't install any kind of default folder/file structure. I was thinking it would. Ooooh.
After looking at the list of sites that use Jekyll, I downloaded the zipped source of https://github.com/al3x/al3x.github.com since I'd met Alex in October and think he's nice.
I unzipped that source into the Dropbox/Projects/JEKYLLTEST folder — http://cl.ly/image/260W1n1n2j0V
Now to figure out about actually using Jekyll to make files and deploy them. That's another story.