How I Post to My Blog

It had been almost a year since my last post, so I forgot how to update my blog. Oops.

Here’s how I did it this time around.

1. Draft the content of the blog post in Obsidian (my preferred Markdown editor)
2. Copy a blog post template file from _posts/example-posts
3. Copy in the contents
4. Preview the the contents with bundle exec jekyll serve

To run bundle exec jekyll serve, I had to install Ruby and set up the project first.

1. Install rbenv for managing Ruby versions
   1. Install with Homebrew: brew install rbenv
   2. Set up rbenv in my shell by adding eval "$(rbenv init -)" to my .zshrc file
2. Install the latest version of Ruby
   1. Check available versions with rbenv install -l
   2. Install with rbenv install <ver>
   3. Set to be the global version (unless I have other Ruby environments) with rbenv global <ver>
3. Install Bundler: gem install bundler
4. Then finally, bundle install

After making sure the post looks good, I just merge and push.