First, I want to stress that Octopress is a blogging framework for hackers. You should be comfortable running shell commands and familiar with the basics of Git. If that sounds daunting, Octopress probably isn’t for you.
Before You Begin
- Install Git.
- Install Ruby 1.9.3 or greater using either rbenv or RVM.
- Install one of the ExecJS supported JavaScript runtimes.
If ruby --version
doesn’t say you’re using Ruby at least 1.9.3, revisit your rbenv or RVM installation.
Setup Octopress
git clone git://github.com/imathis/octopress.git octopress
cd octopress
Next, install dependencies.
gem install bundler
rbenv rehash # If you use rbenv, rehash to be able to run the bundle command
bundle install
Install the default Octopress theme.
rake install