# Adding Jekyll to Homebrew

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/adding-jekyll-to-homebrew/1135>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [October 30, 2017, 12:21pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/adding-jekyll-to-homebrew/1135 "2017-10-30T12:21:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![anon19718297](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@anon19718297](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/anon19718297)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 12:21pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/adding-jekyll-to-homebrew/1135/1 "2017-10-30T12:21:04Z")

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I feel as though installing Jekyll on macOS would be so much easier if there was a brew formulae for it. The current process for installing Jekyll is so confusing and difficult for people not confident with developing, like myself.

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**Author:** ![cbrnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@cbrnr](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/cbrnr)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 10:58am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/adding-jekyll-to-homebrew/1135/2 "2017-11-01T10:58:02Z")

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I don’t think installing Jekyll is confusing or difficult. Actually, it’s a one-liner that works out of the box:

```
gem install jekyll

```

Optionally, you can install the latest Ruby version with Homebrew first with `brew install ruby`.

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**Author:** ![anon19718297](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@anon19718297](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/anon19718297)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 11:33am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/adding-jekyll-to-homebrew/1135/3 "2017-11-01T11:33:59Z")

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That’s the thing. For people like myself who aren’t confident with development/ruby/gems or whatever, dealing with issues like not being able to install using `gem install` due to Apple pre-installing ruby but not granting it write permissions and all that crap.

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**Author:** ![cbrnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@cbrnr](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/cbrnr)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 7:57am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/adding-jekyll-to-homebrew/1135/4 "2017-11-02T07:57:27Z")

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OK, then it’s probably easiest if you install Homebrew Ruby and then use `gem install` for any additional Ruby packages. It’s the same thing with Python, you install Homebrew Python and then use `pip` to install Python packages.

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**Author:** ![anon19718297](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@anon19718297](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/anon19718297)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 8:21am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/adding-jekyll-to-homebrew/1135/5 "2017-11-02T08:21:14Z")

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Fair enough! I never realised Ruby was on Homebrew 🙂

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**Author:** ![Frank](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/frank/32/26_2.png) [@Frank](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/adding-jekyll-to-homebrew/1135/6 "2017-11-06T14:27:00Z")

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@cbrnr If you want to install Jekyll with brew and rbenv on macOS, here is a gist

> <https://gist.github.com/DirtyF/5d2bde5c682101b7b5d90708ad333bf3>