This blog was build using octopress.

Installation

Octopress is toolkit for creating blog using jekyll. It included some of the powerfull gem to support creating a blog with jekyll. Here is how this site is build.

First install bundler if you haven’t already.

gem install bundler

Create Gemfile

bundle init

and then add octopress to gemfile

gem 'octopress', '~> 3.0'

And then run bundle install

When all of the dependencies has been installed you can preview your blog by running

jekyll serve

Configuration

Octopress 3 use the same configuration as the jekyll. Actually it is just a jekyll blog. Octopress only add flavour for easy development. The configuration file is located at _cofig.yml

vim _config.yml

Here is my config.yml looks like

# Site settings
title: Yana Agun Siswanto (bekicot)
email: [email protected] 
description: > # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
  Documenting experience. A blog about Ruby On Rails, Coffeescript, And Javascript Tips. Love Startups and Web Technologies.
baseurl: "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog
url: "bekicot.github.com" # the base hostname & protocol for your site
twitter_username: yana_agun
github_username: bekicot

# Build settings
markdown: kramdown

Posting

After all of the installation and configuration stuff, here comes the fun part. Writing a post. To write a post, run :

octopress new post 'My Post Name'

Open The generated files and edit your post there. But remember, at this point, we are using markdown for editing.

Next Step

I’m writing this post while learning to craft a blog using jekyll, octopress, and github pages. There might be some error created. If you found one or have suggestion, create an issue at This blog’s repository

Learn More about Octopress

octopress Github Repository

Happy Blogging!