02 June 2014

Jekyll, Pandoc, and ruby

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Installing Jekyll 2.0

I recently went through some computer trouble (Ubuntu 14.04 broke suspend on my aging Lenovo ThinkCentre M90z). As all my other computers happily run 12.04 LTS, I decided to roll-back and ‘clean-up’ my installation. Of the many re-installs I had to do, Jekyll was one of the trickiest, partly because it had updated to v2.0 since I last installed it. Here’s the closest I could re-create to what I did for future reference.

1. Install ruby 1.9.1 and rubygems.

   sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1 sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev

2. Set as default ruby version

   cd /etc/alternatives sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 ruby

Check with ruby --version.

3. Install nodejs to avoid missing javascript runtime

   sudo apt-get install nodejs

4. Install json

   sudo gem install json

5. Install Jekyll

   sudo gem install jekyll

6. Install Jekyll-pandoc plugin for using Pandoc markdown

   gem install pandoc-ruby

and follow the install directions. Note that since the update to Jekyll 2.0, this plugin is broken. I took the simple fix of changing pygments to highlight in my *_plugins/pandoc_markdown.rb* file, but there is a fixed fork.

That’s it! jekyll --version should work!