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marsha spell
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Posted by marsha spell
marsha spell
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Do I need to download anything else?

I am seeing this WARNING: Installing to ~/.gem since /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 and /usr/bin aren't both writable. WARNING: You don't have /Users/marshameumann/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin in your PATH, gem executables will not run. ERROR: Error installing jekyll: liquid requires RubyGems version >= 1.3.7

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simhub
simhub
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simhub
simhub
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Hi marsha, maybe this helps...

Try to update gem first: 

$ gem update --system

In case you get permission errors, you must resort to sudo for this and all other gem commands: 

$ sudo gem update --system

i found this answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4904786/how-do-you-install-jekyll-on-osx