The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. It is the default software used by Github Pages. It can be run on a server, or run locally and the generated files uploaded to a server. I also had to reinstall all my other gems but those all went smoothly.Jekyll is a static site generator with a templating system that can be adapted for many types of websites, including blogs. After I did that I was able to successfully run sudo gem install jekyll. I tried a number of things but what finally did it was making sure I had the latest version of Xcode installed. Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/extensions/universal-darwin-18/2.3.0/http_parser.rb-0.6.0/gem_make.out Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/gems/http_parser.rb-0.6.0 for inspection. Make: *** No rule to make target `/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/atform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.13.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/amework/Versions/2.3/usr/include/ruby-2.3.0/universal-darwin18/ruby/config.h', needed by `ruby_http_parser.o'. System/Library/Frameworks/amework/Versions/2.3/usr/bin/ruby -r. This could take a while.ĮRROR: Failed to build gem native extension.Ĭurrent directory: /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/gems/http_parser.rb-0.6.0/ext/ruby_http_parser My first assumption was to try to just reinstall Jekyll but that didn’t work: sudo gem install jekyllīuilding native extensions. This post exists to hopefully provide help to other people when they run into this issue.

So I was a little annoyed when I finally updated to Mojave (10.14) and received the following error: /usr/local/bin/jekyll: /System/Library/Frameworks/amework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I’m not a huge fan of installing the latest and greatest version of anything until it’s had a chance to bite other people when it breaks.

Gem install jekyll