IIITV Blog

View online at iiitv.github.io.

See the inauguration post - http://iiitv.github.io/blog/welcome-to-the-blog.html

The design is drawn from @ansarimofid's work.

Development Instructions

1. Clone the repository

• Open terminal and type the following

  git clone https://github.com/iiitv/iiitv.github.com.git

  2. Go to the local repository on your system

  • Assuming your repository is on the Desktop
  • Open terminal
  • If your terminal is at home, do the following

    cd Desktop/iiitv.github.com/

  • But if you are already at desktop just type

    cd iiitv.github.com/

3. Install Jekyll to your system

You could do this in two ways-

1. Follow the steps given by Jekyll.
2. Follow the instructions below:

To install Jekyll on your system you need the following

• GNU/Linux, Unix, or macOS
• Ruby version 2.1 or above, including all development headers
• RubyGems
• GCC and Make (in case your system doesn’t have them installed, which you can check by running gcc -v and make -v in your system’s command line interface)

(i) How to install Ruby

• Follow the steps given by Ruby.

Or if you are using apt (Debian or Ubuntu)

• Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu use the apt package manager. You can use it like this

  sudo apt-get install ruby-full

  (ii) How to install RubyGems

  • Follow the steps given by RubyGems.

  Or do the following

  gem install rubygems-update
  update_rubygems  

  (iii) How to install Jekyll

  Do the following

  gem install jekyll

  (iv) You also need to install Redcarpet

  To install redcarpet do the following

  sudo gem install redcarpet

  4. Running the project

  • Assuming your terminal is at your repository.
  • If not follow step 2.

  To run the project

  • Do the following

    jekyll serve

  • This command will run the project on default localhost:4000.
  • Open any browser and go to the address localhost:4000.