Welcome Jekyll; goodbye, Blogspot!

While hosting my blog at inreoh.blogspot.de served me quite well for a couple of years, I recently began to get annoyed by the limitations of this approach, namely:

• having to use an inferior editor (the web-based one) as opposed to vim

Getting started is quite easy:

{% highlight ruby %} gem install jekyll bundler jekyll new my-awesome-site cd my-awesome-site bundle exec jekyll serve #=> starts a new Jekyll project, and serves it at localhost:4000 {% endhighlight %}

To convert an existing Blogger blog: {% highlight ruby %} gem install jekyll-import

export your blog as blog-MM-DD-YYYY.xml

cat > import.rb require "jekyll-import"; JekyllImport::Importers::Blogger.run({ "source" => "/path/to/blog-MM-DD-YYYY.xml", "no-blogger-info" => false, # not to leave blogger-URL info (id and old URL) in the front matter "replace-internal-link" => false, # replace internal links using the post_url liquid tag. })

ruby -rubygems import.rb #=> imports your blog posts by adding a file in _static/ for each of them {% endhighlight %}