Can't get Jekyll running anymore

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#1

I’ve been running Jekyll in the past on my Mac, but it doesn’t work anymore. When I try the command bundle exec jekyll build in my sites dir I’ll get:

bundler: command not found: jekyll
Install missing gem executables with bundle install

I allready tried reinstalling Ruby, Bundler and Jekyll, but it didn’t work. Googling my error didn’t help too. Who has any idea?

#2

what is the full console log? was that it?

Seems like most of the time this is related to how/where ruby is involved - sometimes ruby gets installed in 2 places and it doesn’t work.

#3

Hi Rdyar,

This two lines are the only message I’ve got. Is there someone to check if Ruby is installed in two places?

#4

what do you get if you just do jekyll build?

it looks like it is saying jekyll is not installed, try gem install jekyll, then jekyll build.

usually if jekyll is installed but not happy it gives you a lot more log info, in there you can see that ruby is installed in 2 places sometimes. But yours seems to be that it can’t find jekyll.

#5

On one of my computers (Mac, Catalina) I had a similar thing yesterday. After messing around with many Brew, bundle etc. calls I removed the entire gems directory in ~. There is also a .gem, which I left. Then ran
brew update; brew upgrade
went into my Jekyll directory, ran
gem update bundler; bundle update; gem update
Everything downloaded and installed w/o error, and then
JEKYLL_ENV=production bundle exec jekyll serve
worked as usual. Possibly some of the above are overkills :).
Best, Michael

#6

Thanks for the help, rdyar!

This gives:

zsh: command not found: jekyll

This gives:

ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don’t have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0 directory.

So I gave the dir write right and than this command gives:

Fetching jekyll-4.0.0.gem
ERROR: While executing gem … (Errno::EACCES)
Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/cache/jekyll-4.0.0.gem

Problem is /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/cache/jekyll-4.0.0.gem doesn’t exist. Any idea?

#7

Don’t really know if deleting whole dirs is a good idea to just try some things…

#8

I could not agree more… But after >½hr trying to decipher arcane error messages, googling for similar situations… Anyway, that directory was not present before I started with Jekyll :).

#9

I’d try what he said, can’t hurt too much? at least if jekyll is the only ruby thing you use.

I’m not a mac person so not sure I can help with the permissions issue.

I would try what michael said, then if that doesn’t work i would uninstall ruby and try re-installing it. A couple people lately have said the same thing more or less as you - following the same instructions and it didn’t work on a mac.

I’d also poke around and see if ruby is installed twice - not sure how to do that, I know sometimes it ends up in /usr - look around/search in there to see if you see it?

#10

try running gem env and see what you get.

#11

Hey
I am facing the same issue. Were you able to fix it? If yes, how?
Thanks

#12

Try to install again new site (fresh installation from scratch)