Create a blog site

For blogging, we have to specify a local folder as the root of your blog site with the commands below:

 cd [your local folder]   
 jekyll new .

As one of the results of running ‘Jekyll new .’, the skeleton of your blog site with a sample blog is created in the specified folder.

Running your blog site

Theoretically Jekyll is all set and you’re supposed to host your sample site with Jekyll management process right now.
Try the command below:

jekyll serve

If you are able to see similar messages as below, you are lucky:

Configuration file: C://Blog/_config.yml
Source: C://Blog
Destination: C://Blog/_site
Incremental build: disabled. Enable with –incremental
Generating…
done in 1.413 seconds.
Please add the following to your Gemfile to avoid polling for changes:
gem ‘wdm’, ‘>= 0.1.0’ if Gem.win_platform?
Auto-regeneration: enabled for ‘C://Blog’
Configuration file: C:/**/Blog/_config.yml
Server address: http://127.0.0.1:4000/
Server running… press ctrl-c to stop.

it says your sample site is being served at : http://127.0.0.1:4000/
Check it with your browser:
Sample Blog Site in Browser

However, I am not a lucky guy most of time :( The 1st time I run jekyll serve, I got errors below:

C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in require': cannot load such file -- bundler (LoadError) from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in require’
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/jekyll-3.2.1/lib/jekyll/plugin_manager.rb:34:in require_from_bundler' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/jekyll-3.2.1/exe/jekyll:9:in <top (required)>’
from C:/Ruby23/bin/jekyll:23:in load' from C:/Ruby23/bin/jekyll:23:in <main>’

Bundler is a gem dependency of Jekyll which is supposed to be installed with Jekyll. Apparently, it’s not. After installing Bundler with the command bellow, I got rid of above errors:

 gem install bundler

But another dependency that is also supposed to be installed with Jekyll came out:

C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-.12.5/lib/bundler/resolver.rb:356:in block in verify_gemfile_dependencies_are_found!:
Could not find gem minima x86-mingw32 in any of the gem sources listed in your Gemfile or available on this machine.(Bundler::GemNotFound)
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.12.5/lib/bundler/resolver.rb:331:in each
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.12.5/lib/bundler/resolver.rb:331:in verify_gemfile_dependencies_are_found!
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.12.5/lib/bundler/resolver.rb:200:in start
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.12.5/lib/bundler/resolver.rb:184:in resolve
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.12.5/lib/bundler/definition.rb:200:in resolve
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.12.5/lib/bundler/definition.rb:140:in specs
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.12.5/lib/bundler/definition.rb:185:in specs_for
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.12.5/lib/bundler/definition.rb:174:in requested_specs
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.12.5/lib/bundler/environment.rb:19:in requested_specs
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.12.5/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:14:in setup
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/bundler-1.12.5/lib/bundler.rb:95:in setup
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/jekyll-3.2.1/lib/jekyll/plugin_manager.rb:36:in require_from_bundler
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/jekyll-3.2.1/exe/jekyll:9:in <top (required)>
from C:/Ruby23/bin/jekyll:23:in load
from C:/Ruby23/bin/jekyll:23:in <main>

Finally, my blog site is able to be served successfully after I installed the dependency ‘minima’.