Jekyll Installation - MacOS

Install Ruby

• Execute the command below to ensure Ruby is installed.
  • ruby -v
• If your output displays command not found, then execute the command below to download and install Ruby
  • brew install ruby
• If your output displays You don't have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0 directory, then execute the command below to export GEM_HOME
  • export GEM_HOME="$HOME/.gem"

Install Jekyll

• Execute the command below to ensure Ruby is installed.
  • ruby -v
• Execute the command below to ensure Gem is installed.
  • gem -v
• Execute the command below to install Jekyll
  • gem install jekyll bundler
• Execute the command below to ensure Jekyll was installed successfully
  • jekyll -v

Optional: Install rbenv

• rbenv is used to install a new version of Ruby and the bundler gem:

• Install rbenv by running the following command in the Terminal:

brew install rbenv

• Execute the command belolw to add the following line to add an auto-initializer for rbenv

    echo eval "$(rbenv init -)" >> ~/.bash_profile
    echo eval "$(rbenv init -)" >> ~/.zshrc
  
    source ~/.bash_profile
    source ~/.zshrc
  

• Use rbenv to install a new version of Ruby. For example, to install Ruby 2.7.2, run the following command:

rbenv install 2.7.2

• Set the global Ruby version to the newly installed version by running the following command:

rbenv global 2.7.2

• Verify that the correct version of Ruby is being used by running the following command:
  • ruby -v
• Finally, install the bundler gem using the following command:
  • gem install bundler
• This should install the bundler gem for the newly installed version of Ruby and allow you to use it without needing root privileges.