🚀 My Blog with Chirpy Starter

This blog runs on Chirpy Starter, a minimal and fast Jekyll template.

When installing via RubyGems, Jekyll loads only:

• _data
• _layouts
• _includes
• _sass
• assets

And part of _config.yml.

To unlock the full theme (homepage, tabs, plugins), copy these files to your project root:

.
├── _config.yml
├── _plugins
├── _tabs
└── index.html

I combined this with a CD workflow for automatic updates and easy deployment.

🏃 Run Locally

Prerequisites

• Ruby ≥ 3.0 (developed on Ruby 3.4)
• Bundler — install with gem install bundler

Steps

1. Point Bundler at a user-writable path. By default Bundler tries to write gems to the system directory (/usr/lib/ruby/gems/...), which fails with a permission error. Redirect it to your home directory:

   bundle config set --global path ~/.local/share/gem

2. Install dependencies:

   bundle install

3. Start the dev server:

   bundle exec jekyll serve

   Then open http://127.0.0.1:4000/. The site auto-regenerates on file changes.

Tip: The bundle config step is global, so it only needs to be run once per machine.

🔗 Resources

• Docs: Chirpy Wiki
• Theme: Chirpy Repo
• License: MIT