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Installing Jekyll on OS X

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    Install Xcode

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    Run Xcode, go to Preferences

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    • Sign-in under “Accounts”
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    Once installed, install Homebrew

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    ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"\n
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    Then install the Ruby Version Manager1

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    curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby\n
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    Source the RVM:

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    source /usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm\n
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    Install Jekyll

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    gem install jekyll\n
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    Test. I did it by running jekyll serve from a
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Footnotes

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    I temporarily had to chown root:admin /usr/local/bin/brew for
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    http://localhost:9001 ↩︎

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