octopress 3 installing plugin

Question

I am following this documentation for installing octopress 3 plugin. https://github.com/octopress/ink/blob/master/assets/docs/working-with-plugins.markdown first I run command gem install octopress-codefence and added this line to _config.yml

gems:
  - octopress-codefence

but when i run this command

octopress ink list octopress-codefence

following message was displayed.

Plugin 'octopress-codefence' not found.

Currently installed plugins: You have no plugins installed.

Also followed this page https://github.com/octopress/codefence

Can anyone help how to install plugins in octopress 3. Also I don't know ruby and gem so bear with me.

Answer 1

Octopress Ink is a tool for making themes and plugins for Octopress. If I understand you correctly you just want to install the 'codefence' plugin to your blog. If so, you don't need Ink. If you want to list all the installed gems on your system, type the following in your terminal:

gem list

or

gem list octopress-codefence

if you just want see if a particular gem is installed, and what is its version number. This post covers the blog setup in detail.