Being new to the world of Ruby (and obviously Jekyll), I thought a good initial learning experience would be to write a liquid tag for Jekyll to display an Instagram photo. I finished up a decent enough version of the code, and it’s actually in use over at lukelov.es to display all my Instagrams. Check out this page for a complete example of what the finished product looks like.

It is a simple liquid tag which takes one parameter, the ID of a media item from Instagram. The code then fetches the media item using Instagram’s ruby gem, and writes a bunch of relevant HTML to the page.

Update: This blog now uses the Hyde theme. Thanks @mdo!

Octopress has been cloned and I now have my first Jekyll blog (and first ever blog…