To set up the website on your local machine, the following steps are required:
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Install Ruby >= 2.1 if not yet available
⚠️ Note for Mac users: macOS Sierra only comes with Ruby 2.0. You must therefore install a newer one manually. The best way to do this is with tools such as Rbenv or RVM (see short instructions below).How to check which Ruby version is currently installed:
$ ruby --version
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Install Bundler if not yet available
$ gem install bundler
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Start Jekyll
$ bundle exec jekyll serve
Now the website can be accessed at
http://localhost:4000
.
Here you can find a documentation at GitHub about how to use Jekyll locally: https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-your-github-pages-site-locally-with-jekyll/
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Update Ruby on a Mac
Open the terminal and enter the following command
$ \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
When the installation is finished, open a new terminal window and run the command
rvm list known
. This shows a list of all Ruby versions. If version 2.4 is not included, you can install it withrvm install ruby-2.4.0
. Find out the currently used version withruby -v
. If it is an older version than 2.4, you can uservm use ruby-2.4.0
to update it.