You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.

To add new posts, simply add a file in the _posts directory that follows the convention YYYY-MM-DD-name-of-post.ext and includes the necessary front matter. Take a look at the source for this post to get an idea about how it works.

Jekyll also offers powerful support for code snippets:

def print_hi(name)
puts "Hi, #{name}"
end
print_hi('Tom')
#=> prints 'Hi, Tom' to STDOUT.

Check out the Jekyll docs for more info on how to get the most out of Jekyll. File all bugs/feature requests at Jekyll’s GitHub repo. If you have questions, you can ask them on Jekyll Talk.

*** Update 13/9 2022 ***

Installation issues with som gem packages.

  • upgraded to the latest github-pages version 277
  • This upgraded Jekyll to version 3.9.2
  • The new version of Jekyll added support for Ruby 3.0 and 3.1
  • Needed to add gem webrick

I also had errors with nokogiri, but that was related to gems not working with ruby version 3 and missing dependencies for native libraries such as libxml2.

Link to fix Trouble of Nokogiri gem installing