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plainionist
plainionist

Reputation: 3573

Jekyll on Windows without installation

Is there a way to run Jekyll on windows without installing Ruby or anything else?

It doesn't need to be perfect - I am basically looking for a simple way to preview a Jekyll and GitHub pages based blog.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 883

Answers (1)

Christian Specht
Christian Specht

Reputation: 36441

It's not possible without copying anything onto your machine, but it's possible without installing anything.

You can use Portable Jekyll - it's a portable download including Ruby and anything else needed to run Jekyll.

Just download it as a .zip file, unzip on your machine and run setpath.cmd, which opens a command prompt with all environment variables set that you need to execute Jekyll.

I'm using this to build multiple Jekyll sites locally on my Windows machine.

By slightly tweaking setpath.cmd, it's also possible to create a batch file which you can just double-click to build your site.
I submitted a pull request for that (but unfortunately it has not yet been merged yet), read the description for more information.

Upvotes: 5

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