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HTML Build a Blog with Jekyll and GitHub Pages Getting Started with Jekyll Installing Jekyll

Kristen Mollica
Kristen Mollica
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Posted by Kristen Mollica
Kristen Mollica
2,809 Points

Error installing Jekyll

After running: sudo gem install jekyll, I get the following error message: ERROR: Error installing jekyll: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb

mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/include/ruby.h

Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/yajl-ruby-1.2.1 for inspection. Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/yajl-ruby-1.2.1/ext/yajl/gem_make.out

Any ideas how to install it?

3 Answers

Kristen Mollica
Kristen Mollica
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Kristen Mollica
Kristen Mollica
2,809 Points

Thanks for your response, Salman! The development environment on my system wasn't set up correctly, and I didn't know because this is my first time working with gem installation. My fiancee fixed it by following the steps for 10.10 OSX on installrails.com.

Salman Akram
Salman Akram
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Awesome! Hope everything is working now on your side. ;)

Salman Akram
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Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points
Salman Akram
Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points

Hi Kristen,

I had similiar issue few days ago, I assume you also using Ubuntu. The problem is they don't know where to find dev package.

Let's type : sudo apt-get install ruby-dev

Hope it will fix that issue.

Craig Thompson
Craig Thompson
1,510 Points
Craig Thompson
Craig Thompson
1,510 Points

I had my own error setting it up I'd done it originally on Windows but am a Mac noob. For some reason the gems didn't install but following what I could find about it online, I installed Xcode and reinstalled jekyll which worked with the gems installing correctly. I don't really understand it but might help someone...