Installing Jekyll and Ruby on Windows

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I used Jekyll for writing some documentation. Installing it on a Mac was easy of course. Now back on a Windows box the installation was a tiny bit more complicated.

But not that hard actually.

First thing you go to http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ and download the latest version of Ruby execute it and add its /bin directory to your Path environment variable.

Next and this is the tricky bit – without which you will receive weird errors about fast-stemmer requiring build tools when trying to install Jekyll – you need to download the latest version of DevKit also to be found on http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/.

Download it and extract it somewhere and then add its /bin directory to your Path variable as well.

Now open your command line and do the following.

cd PATH_TO_YOUR_DEVKIT_DIR
ruby dk.rb init
ruby dk.rb install

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Now you can run the final step to install Jekyll.

gem install jekyll

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And you’re done.

Jekyll · Ruby · Windows