Installing Octopress

Octopress is a framework designed by Brandon Mathis for Jekyll, the blog aware static site generator powering Github Pages. To start blogging with Jekyll, you have to write your own HTML templates, CSS, Javascripts and set up your configuration. But with Octopress All of that is already taken care of. Simply clone or fork Octopress, install dependencies and the theme, and you’re set.

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git clone git://github.com/imathis/octopress.git ; cd octopress
gem install bundler rake --no-rdoc --no-ri
bundle install
bundle exec rake install

Here you have some clues to start blogging:

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bundle exec rake new_post["title"]
bundle exec rake new_page["title"]
bundle exec rake generate
bundle exec rake watch
bundle exec rake preview