Octopressy and the Fabergé gem

Finally we meet, Octopressy. Here you are, intent on taking over the world and nothing looks to be stopping you - except, perchance, yourself?

I might have been smarter to just start with Jekyll and accept the limitations. Instead I greedily went for the entire enchilada.

At first I couldn't download rvm, but I already had 1.23.something, so I continued. There were no binaries for ruby 1.9.3 for my system, so it tried to compile it itself - and failed. Twice.

There were some issues with gems, or something. Perhaps this wasn't the best time to experiment as others apparently have the same problem. I threw a bunch of commands at the terminal, some seemed to push things forward and stuff was finally installed.

Now I needed to set up different accounts for git, but I got that set up and followed the instructions. After that, it was back to Octopress to rake a bunch of things.

And finally it was time to write. But I didn't.

I had no idea what all those commands meant. And now I would need to set this up on another machine? In a way that means they can sync drafts? And push to the same repo? And what is this repo - it looked nothing like what I had done. Is there a new version of Octopress about to come out? Or has it already and the instructions are just outdated?

All of this has confused me more than it has helped. Perhaps if I studied the innards a bit more, I'd get the gist of it. But for now, this is not for me. For someone who breathes ruby and git, this might be a simple and straightforward process. But I think I'll stick to Blogger for now.

Perhaps Hyde is a better choice? After all, it's Python which I'm more familiar with. And there are fewer commands. But unfortunately there's very little activity. That could spell trouble.