How to configure jekyll for a single page markdown site?

[Andrew]

I'm trying to configure jekyll so that I can generate a single page website written in markdown with code samples. I could probably use maruku directly, but since I also want pygments to generate the code samples I think configuring jekyll will be easier. I tried creating a index.markdown file and running jekyll, but all it did was copy the file into an _site directory. It did not create an index.html file. How do I configure jekyll for this use case?

Thanks,

Andrew

[dueyfinster]

Does your markdown file have the proper extension? Mine use .md :

https://github.com/dueyfinster/dueyfinster.github.com

Also see your config is set up correctly with markdown engine:

https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Configuration

If you use github pages this automatically okay.

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You need to put this at the beginning of your file (including the -'s,
but ignoring the ~'s):

~~~
---
title: your_site_title
layout: default
---
~~~
You also need to create a _layouts directory and add a file called
default.yml. The minimal contents for this file are:
~~~
{{ page.content }}
~~~
It would be nice to stick some additional HTML (title, ...) around, though.

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[Andrew]

Kwpolska, thank you!

The solution was to add the "YAML Front Matter" to the top of the index.markdown file (or index.md).

https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/YAML-Front-Matter