How to install a jekyll plugin for an octopress blog?

Question

I have recently found excellent Octopress & Jekyll frameworks, and I am going to switch my homepage to octopress from wordpress (which is rather well documented). However, I am eager to add several plugins to octopress. For example, the one that generates bibliographies. There are several plugins for Jekyll for doing this (for example, https://github.com/inukshuk/jekyll-scholar)

However, I was not able to make it functional for an octopress website;
I tried to follow the install instructions, and instead of jekyll plugin directory use the octopress plugin directory; it did not work out.

Can anyone provide me with general instructions how the jekyll plugin should be installed for a simple octopress blog (an example for jekyll-scholar would be enough).

Answer 1

Not 100% sure, as I'm new to Octopress and Jekyll myself but here goes:

Install

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$ [sudo] gem install jekyll-scholar

Usage

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Create a file called ext.rb in the plugins directory of Octopress.

The contents of the ext.rb file should be

require 'jekyll/scholar'

To adjust the Jekyll-Scholar settings, use the configuration file _config.yml